Object-Oriented Programming

Learning Resources for Java OOP in Metropolia's Software Engineering Curriculum

This material has been made by Vesa Ollikainen (modules 1, 4, 6, and 7) and Jarkko Vuori (modules 2, 3, 5, and 8).

Part 1: Fundamentals of OOP in Java

Module 1: Fundamentals of Java

• Java as a programming language
• Variables, input and output, type conversion, and arithmetic operators
• Control structures
• Arrays

Module 2: Data structures and interplay of objects

• Class, object, constructor, instance variable, method
• Collections
• Association

Module 3: Advanced Java Concepts

• Inheritance
• Interface
• Static variables and methods, packages and modifiers
• Data streams, exceptions

Module 4: Enhancing the coding

• Version control and AI-assisted coding

Part 2: Advanced development in Java

Module 5: Multithreading

• Threads: the basics
• Synchronization of threads

Module 6: GUI and event-driven programming

• Principles of GUI, events, MVC model
• Layouts, building the UI
• Graphics, mouse and keyboard events, updating the GUI
• GUI design tools

Module 7: Persistence

• Preparing the database
• Database usage via JDBC driver
• Basics of object-relational mapping
• Association in object-relational mapping

Module 8: Unit Testing and Functional programming

• Foundations of unit testing, running the tests, JavaDoc
• TDD and unit test design
• Lambda statements
• Map/filter/reduce