AP-Workshop

Workshop course for Advanced Programming at AUT-CE

Table of Contents

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0. Starting with Java, Git, GitHub and IDE

   • Creating GitHub account.
   • Installing Git.
   • Installing Java and Intellij IDEA.

1. Java environment, Basic syntax, Working with Git and GitHub

   • JDK, JRE, JVM.
   • Basic syntax, running code in terminal.
   • Working with Git and GitHub.

2. Java Basics and OOP

   • Classes and Objects.
   • Constructors, getters, setters, and encapsulation.
   • Class Diagram.

3. Object Composition, Strings, Javadoc

   • Object composition (has-a relationships).
   • String manipulation and common methods.
   • Writing and generating Javadoc comments for code documentation, built-in packages.

4. Collections

   • Lists, Sets, Maps and Queues.
   • Immutability, iterators, generics, and comparators.
   • Common use cases for collections (e.g., ArrayList, HashMap).

5. Memory Management, Primitive vs Object, Equality, Wrapper, Test and Debug

   • Stack vs. Heap memory.
   • Primitive vs. reference types, autoboxing/unboxing.
   • equals() vs ==, and wrapper classes.
   • Basics of testing (JUnit) and debugging (IDE tools).

6. Inheritance, Casting, Abstraction, Interface

   • Inheritance and polymorphism.
   • Type casting (up casting/down casting).
   • Abstract classes and interfaces.

7. Introduction to Software Engineering, CRC Cards, UML

   • Some princples of Software Engineering, Cohesions, Coupling.
   • CRC Cards.
   • UML basics: class diagrams, sequence diagrams.

8. Exception and Stream, Try with Resource, Generics

   • Exception handling: try/catch/finally, custom exceptions.
   • I/O streams: File I/O, try-with-resources.
   • Stream API basics.

9. Threading

   • Thread basics: Runnable, Thread, synchronized.
   • Thread lifecycle.
   • Simple multithreaded examples.

10. Socket Programming

    • Basics of TCP/UDP sockets.
    • Building a simple client-server application.
    • Introduction to Http.

11. JavaFX, SceneBuilder, MVC Pattern

    • Introduction to JavaFX and FXML.
    • Using SceneBuilder for GUI design.
    • Implementing the MVC pattern in JavaFX.

12. Parallel Programming, Timeline, Multi-Scene Views

    • Advanced concurrency: thread pools, executors.
    • JavaFX timelines and animations.
    • Multi-scene views in JavaFX.
    • Practice questions for concurrency and JavaFX.

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