5318: Sun Certified Java Programming Language (SL-275)

5318: Sun Certified Java Programming Language (SL-275) Course Description

Intended Audience for the 5318: Sun Certified Java Programming Language (SL-275) Course

• Students who can benefit from this course are programmers who are interested in adding the Java programming language to their list of skills and students who are preparing for the Sun Certified Programmer for Java examination.
• Students should be able to understand object-oriented principles; create or compile simple programs in a language, such as C or C++, or have completed the SL-110: Fundamentals of the Java Programming Language course and have created and compiled simple Java programs; create and edit text files using a text editor.

5318: Sun Certified Java Programming Language (SL-275) Course Objectives

• Create Java technology applications that leverage the object-oriented features of the Java language, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism.
• Execute and run a Java technology application from the command line.
• Use Java technology data types and expressions.
• Use Java technology flow control constructs.
• Use arrays and other data collections.
• Implement error-handling techniques using exception handling.
• Create event-driven graphical user interface (GUI) using Java technology GUI components: panels, buttons, labels, text fields, and text areas.
• Implement input/output (I/O) functionality to read from and write to data and text files.
• Create multithreaded programs.
• Create a simple Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networked client that communicates through sockets.

5318: Sun Certified Java Programming Language (SL-275) Course Outline

1. Module 1 - Getting Started
   1. Describe the key features of Java technology
   2. Write, compile, and run a simple Java technology application
   3. Describe the function of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
   4. NOTE: The terms "Java Virtual Machine" and "JVM" mean a Virtual Machine for the Java platform.
   5. Define garbage collection
   6. List the three tasks performed by the Java platform that handle code security
2. Module 2 - Object-Oriented Programming
   1. Define modeling concepts: abstraction, encapsulation, and packages
   2. Discuss why you can reuse Java technology application code
   3. Define class, member, attribute, method, constructor, and package
   4. Use the access modifiers private and public as appropriate for the guidelines of encapsulation
   5. Invoke a method on a particular object
   6. Use the Java technology application programming interface (API) online documentation
3. Module 3 - Identifiers, Keywords, and Types
   1. Use comments in a source program
   2. Distinguish between valid and invalid identifiers
   3. Recognize Java technology keywords
   4. List the eight primitive types
   5. Define literal values for numeric and textual types
   6. Define the terms primitive variable and reference variable
   7. Declare variables of class type
   8. Construct an object using new
   9. Describe default initialization
   10. Describe the significance of a reference variable
   11. State the consequence of assigning variables of class type
4. Module 4 - Expressions and Flow Control
   1. Distinguish between instance and local variables
   2. Describe how to initialize instance variables
   3. Identify and correct a Possible reference before assignment compiler error
   4. Recognize, describe, and use Java software operators
   5. Distinguish between legal and illegal assignments of primitive types
   6. Identify Boolean expressions and their requirements in control constructs
   7. Recognize assignment compatibility and required casts in fundamental types
   8. Use if, switch, for, while, and do constructions and the labeled forms of break and continue as flow control structures in a program
5. Module 5 - Arrays
   1. Declare and create arrays of primitive, class, or array types
   2. Explain why elements of an array are initialized
   3. Explain how to initialize the elements of an array
   4. Determine the number of elements in an array
   5. Create a multidimensional array
   6. Write code to copy array values from one array to another
6. Module 6 - Class Design
   1. Define inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, overriding, and virtual method invocation
   2. Use the access modifiers protected and the default (package-friendly)
   3. Describe the concepts of constructor and method overloading
   4. Describe the complete object construction and initialization operation
7. Module 7 - Advanced Class Features
   1. Create static variables, methods, and initializers
   2. Create final classes, methods, and variables
   3. Create and use enumerated types
   4. Use the static import statement
   5. Create abstract classes and methods
   6. Create and use an interface
8. Module 8 - Exceptions and Assertions
   1. Define exceptions
   2. Use try, catch, and finally statements
   3. Describe exception categories
   4. Identify common exceptions
   5. Develop programs to handle your own exceptions
   6. Use assertions
   7. Distinguish appropriate and inappropriate uses of assertions
   8. Enable assertions at runtime
9. Module 9 - Text-Based Applications
   1. Write a program that uses command-line arguments and system properties
   2. Write a program that reads from standard input
   3. Describe the C-type formatted input and output
   4. Write a program that can create, read, and write files
   5. Describe the basic hierarchy of collections in Java 2 Software Development Kit (Java 2 SDK)
   6. Write a program to iterate over a collection
   7. Write a program that uses generic collections
10. Module 10 - Building Java GUIs
    1. Describe the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) package and its components
    2. Define the terms containers, components, and layout managers, and describe how they work together to build a GUI
    3. Use layout managers
    4. Use the FlowLayout, BorderLayout, and GridLayout managers to achieve a desired dynamic layout
    5. Add components to a container
    6. Use the Frame and Panel containers appropriately
    7. Describe how complex layouts with nested containers work
11. Module 11 - GUI Event Handling
    1. Define events and event handling
    2. Write code to handle events that occur in a GUI
    3. Describe the concept of adapter classes, including how and when to use them
    4. Determine the user action that originated the event from the event object details
    5. Identify the appropriate listener interface for a variety of event types
    6. Create the appropriate event handler methods for a variety of event types
    7. Understand the use of inner classes and anonymous classes in event handling
    8. Module 12 - GUI-Based Applications
    9. Identify the key AWT components and the events that they trigger
    10. Describe how to construct a menu bar, menu, and menu items in a Java GUI
    11. Understand how to change the color and font of a component
12. Module 13 - Threads
    1. Define a thread
    2. Create separate threads in a Java technology program, controlling the code and data that are used by that thread
    3. Control the execution of a thread and write platform-independent code with threads
    4. Describe the difficulties that might arise when multiple threads share data
    5. Use wait and notify to communicate between threads
    6. Use synchronized to protect data from corruption
13. Module 14 - Advanced I/O Streams
    1. Describe the main features of the java.io package
    2. Construct node and processing streams, and use them appropriately
    3. Distinguish readers and writers from streams, and select appropriately between them
14. Module 15 - Networking
    1. Develop code to set up the network connection
    2. Understand the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
    3. Use ServerSocket and Socket classes for implementation of TCP/IP clients and servers

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