Course Overview

This is a five-day, comprehensive, and hands-on training course geared for developers who have little or no prior working knowledge of object-oriented programming languages, such as those working on C, COBOL, 4GL, etc.

Who Should Attend

Programmers with little or no Object-Oriented background, such as C, COBOL, Mainframe, 4GL developers, etc.

Course Objectives

• Understand what OO programming is and what the advantages of OO are in today's world
• Work with objects, classes, and OO implementations
• Understand the basic concepts of OO such as encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction
• Understand not only the fundamentals of the Java language, but also its importance, uses, strengths and weaknesses
• Understand the basics of the Java language and how it relates to OO programming and the Object Model
• Work with the Java 9 modular system (Project Jigsaw)
• Learn to use Java exception handling features
• Understand and use classes, inheritance and polymorphism
• Understand and use collections, generics, autoboxing, and enumerations
• Process large amount of data using Lambda expressions and the Stream API
• Use the JDBC API for database access
• Take advantage of the Java tooling that is available with the programming environment being used in the class

Course Outline