Working with an object-oriented language is a must have skill in today’s business world. Most introductory language courses focus on the syntax, libraries, and tools of the language but fail to explain the most important aspect: How to effectively use the language to solve business problems.
This four day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge, principles and skills to design software solutions using Java and a modern IDE such as Eclipse or Intellij’s Idea. Along the way, you will use the tools, learn the syntax, and gain experience with the core libraries that you will use every day in your development. The course is heavily hands-on, and provides the students ample opportunity to practice using the knowledge and skills in the context of creating an application. Students will be exposed to principles and best practices for creating maintainable, extensible software. Improving’s instructors bring real-world experience and insight to the classroom, and students walk away with knowledge, experience, and references to enhance retention.

Audience:

• Individuals with some prior programming experience who are interested in learning to program well using Java

Participants will learn to:

• Explain Coupling and Cohesion
• Use polymorphism to create flexible solutions
• Explain the concepts of generalization and specialization
• Understand when to and [more importantly] when not to use inheritance
• Assign responsibilities to classes to make the solution flexible, extensible, and maintainable
• Select candidate objects and classes
• Define classes, methods, and properties
• Create Interfaces to extract common behavior
• Group classes into packages
• Import packages
• Debug and troubleshoot a java application
• Create unit tests using JUnit
• Use the Java I/O API
• Use JDBC to connect to a database
• Create a basic Swing application
• Create a basic Web application