Java

☕ Java Programming Course Outline

🧾 1. Introduction to Java

• History and features of Java

• JVM, JRE, and JDK

• Installing Java and setting up the environment

• Writing your first Java program

• Java development tools (IDE: IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, VS Code)

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🔤 2. Java Basics

• Data types and variables

• Operators and expressions

• Type casting

• Input and output using Scanner

• Comments in Java

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🔁 3. Control Statements

• Decision-making: if, if-else, else-if, switch

• Loops: for, while, do-while

• Jump statements: break, continue, return

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📦 4. Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in Java

• Classes and objects

• Constructors (default, parameterized, copy)

• this keyword

• Method overloading

• Static members and blocks

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🧬 5. Inheritance and Polymorphism

• Inheritance and types

• super keyword

• Method overriding

• Dynamic method dispatch

• Final keyword

• Abstract classes and methods

• Interfaces and multiple inheritance

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🧵 6. Packages and Access Modifiers

• Built-in packages

• User-defined packages

• Access control (public, private, protected, default)

• Importing packages

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📚 7. Exception Handling

• Try-catch block

• Multiple catch blocks

• Nested try

• Finally block

• Throw and throws

• Custom exceptions

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🧷 8. Arrays and Strings

• One-dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays

• ArrayList and other collections

• String operations and methods

• StringBuilder vs StringBuffer

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📦 9. Java Collections Framework

• List, Set, and Map interfaces

• ArrayList, LinkedList, HashSet, TreeSet

• HashMap, TreeMap

• Iterators and loops

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🧪 10. File Handling and Streams

• File operations using File, FileReader, FileWriter

• BufferedReader and BufferedWriter

• Serialization and deserialization

• Object streams

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🧰 11. Multithreading and Concurrency

• Thread class and Runnable interface

• Thread lifecycle

• Synchronization

• Inter-thread communication

• Executors

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🧮 12. GUI Programming (Optional / Intermediate)

• Introduction to Swing

• Basic GUI components (JFrame, JPanel, JButton, JTextField)

• Layout managers

• Event handling

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🌐 13. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)

• Connecting Java with MySQL

• Performing CRUD operations

• Prepared statements

• Transactions

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🚀 14. Mini Projects and Real-world Applications

• Student management system (console-based)

• Banking system

• File encryption/decryption

• CRUD app using JDBC and Swing

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🎓 15. Advanced Topics (Optional / Intermediate)

• Lambda expressions

• Functional interfaces

• Streams API

• Annotations

• Generics

• Java 8–17 features overvie