TABLE OF CONTENTS

UNIT I .........................................................................................................................................
INTRODUCTION TO OOP AND JAVA FUNDAMENTALS .............................................
1.1 Object Oriented Programming ..................................................................................................
1.1.1 Abstraction ........................................................................................................................
1.1.2 Objects and Classes...........................................................................................................
1.1.3 Encapsulation ....................................................................................................................
1.1.4 Inheritance.........................................................................................................................
1.1.5 Polymorphism ...................................................................................................................
1.1.6 OOP in Java ......................................................................................................................
1.2 Characteristics of Java ..............................................................................................................
1.3 The Java Environment ..............................................................................................................
1.3.1 Java Source File ................................................................................................................
1.3.2 Structure ............................................................................................................................
1.3.3 Compilation.......................................................................................................................
1.4 Fundamental Programming Structures in Java .........................................................................
1.5 Defining classes in Java ............................................................................................................
1.5.1 Declaration ........................................................................................................................
1.5.2 Object ................................................................................................................................
1.5.3 Constructors ......................................................................................................................
1.5.4 Methods.............................................................................................................................
1.5.5 Access specifiers ..............................................................................................................
1.5.6 Static members ..................................................................................................................
1.6 Comments .................................................................................................................................
1.7 Data Types ................................................................................................................................
1.7.1 Primitive Data Types ........................................................................................................
1.7.2 Reference / Object Data Types .........................................................................................
1.8 Variables ...................................................................................................................................
1.8.1 Local Variables .................................................................................................................
1.8.2 Instance variables ..............................................................................................................
1.8.3 Class / Static variables ......................................................................................................
1.9 Operators ...................................................................................................................................
1.9.1 Arithmetic Operators.........................................................................................................
1.9.2 Relational Operator ...........................................................................................................
1.9.3 Logical Operator ...............................................................................................................
1.9.4 Bitwise Operator ...............................................................................................................
 1.9.5 Assignment Operator ........................................................................................................
1.9.6 Increment & Decrement Operator.....................................................................................
1.10 Control Flow .............................................................................................................................
1.10.1 Conditional Statements .....................................................................................................
1.10.2 Looping Statements...........................................................................................................
1.11 Arrays........................................................................................................................................
1.11.1 Declarations ......................................................................................................................
1.11.2 Initialization / Instantiation ...............................................................................................
1.11.3 Creation .............................................................................................................................
1.11.4 Basic Functions of Array Class .........................................................................................
1.11.5 Types of Arrays .................................................................................................................
1.12 Packages ....................................................................................................................................
1.12.1 Java API packages ............................................................................................................
1.12.2 User defined packages ......................................................................................................
1.13 JavaDoc comments ...................................................................................................................
1.13.1 How to Insert Comments ..................................................................................................
1.13.2 Class Comments................................................................................................................
1.13.3 Method Comments ............................................................................................................
1.13.4 Field Comments ................................................................................................................
1.13.5 General Comments ............................................................................................................
1.13.6 How to Extract Comments ................................................................................................
UNIT II .......................................................................................................................................
INHERITANCE AND INTERFACES ....................................................................................
2.1 Inheritance.................................................................................................................................
2.1.1 Super classes .....................................................................................................................
2.1.2 Sub classes ........................................................................................................................
2.1.3 Inheritance Type ...............................................................................................................
2.1.4 Protected members ............................................................................................................
2.1.5 Constructors in sub classes ...............................................................................................
2.2 Object class ...............................................................................................................................
2.3 Abstract Classes and Methods ..................................................................................................
2.3.1 Abstract Class ...................................................................................................................
2.3.2 Abstract Method................................................................................................................
2.3.3 Important points to be notes while using abstract class and methods ...............................
2.4 Final Keyword ..........................................................................................................................
2.4.1 Final Class .........................................................................................................................
2.4.2 Final Method .....................................................................................................................
 2.4.3 Final Variable....................................................................................................................
2.5 Interfaces ...................................................................................................................................
2.5.1 Defining an interface .........................................................................................................
2.5.2 Implementing interface .....................................................................................................
2.5.3 Accessing Implementations through Interface Reference .................................................
2.5.4 Differences between classes and interfaces ......................................................................
2.5.5 Extending interfaces ..........................................................................................................
2.6 Object cloning ...........................................................................................................................
2.6.1 Points to be remembered while Cloning the Object..........................................................
2.6.2 Types of Cloning...............................................................................................................
2.7 Inner classes ..............................................................................................................................
2.7.1 Instance Inner Class: (Inner Class) ...................................................................................
2.7.2 Local Inner Class: (Method Class)....................................................................................
2.7.3 Anonymous Inner Class ....................................................................................................
2.8 Array Lists ................................................................................................................................
2.8.1 List ....................................................................................................................................
2.8.2 Array List ..........................................................................................................................
2.8.3 ArrayList class members ...................................................................................................
2.8.4 Accessing elements from the ArrayList ............................................................................
2.9 Strings .......................................................................................................................................
2.9.1 Creating Strings.................................................................................................................
2.9.2 String Operations ..............................................................................................................
UNIT III ......................................................................................................................................
EXCEPTION HANDLING AND I/O ......................................................................................
3.1 Exceptions .................................................................................................................................
3.1.1 Exception hierarchy ..........................................................................................................
3.1.2 Throwing and catching exceptions....................................................................................
3.1.3 Built-in exceptions ............................................................................................................
3.1.4 Creating own exceptions ...................................................................................................
3.1.5 Stack Trace Element .........................................................................................................
3.2 Input / Output Basics ................................................................................................................
3.2.1 Streams ..............................................................................................................................
3.2.2 Byte streams ......................................................................................................................
3.2.3 Character Stream ...............................................................................................................
3.2.4 Reading and Writing Console ...........................................................................................
3.2.5 Reading and Writing Files ................................................................................................
UNIT IV ......................................................................................................................................
MULTITHREADING AND GENERIC PROGRAMMING.................................................
4.1 Differences between multi-threading and multitasking ............................................................
4.2 Thread life cycle .......................................................................................................................
4.3 Creating threads ........................................................................................................................
4.3.1 Create Thread by Implementing Runnable .......................................................................
4.3.2 Create Thread by Extending Thread .................................................................................
4.4 Synchronizing threads ...............................................................................................................
4.5 Inter-thread communication ......................................................................................................
4.6 Daemon threads ........................................................................................................................
4.7 Thread groups ...........................................................................................................................
4.8 Generic Programming ...............................................................................................................
4.8.1 Generic classes ..................................................................................................................
4.8.2 Generic methods ...............................................................................................................
4.8.3 Bounded Types .................................................................................................................
4.8.4 Restrictions and Limitations .............................................................................................
UNIT V........................................................................................................................................
EVENT DRIVEN PROGRAMMING......................................................................................
5.1 Graphics programming .............................................................................................................
5.1.1 Lifecycle methods for Applet ...........................................................................................
5.1.2 Component class: java.awt.Component ............................................................................
5.1.3 Window class: java.awt.Window ......................................................................................
5.1.4 Frame ................................................................................................................................
5.1.5 Creating a Frame Window ................................................................................................
5.2 Working with 2D shapes ...........................................................................................................
5.2.1 Graphics: Available in java.awt.Graphics .........................................................................
5.2.2 Java Coordinate System ....................................................................................................
5.2.3 Lines..................................................................................................................................
5.2.4 Rectangles .........................................................................................................................
5.2.5 Polygons ............................................................................................................................
5.2.6 Ovals .................................................................................................................................
5.2.7 Arc.....................................................................................................................................
5.2.8 Drawing Text ....................................................................................................................
5.3 Using color: java.awt.Color ......................................................................................................
5.3.1 java.awt.Component..........................................................................................................
5.3.2 java.awt.Graphics ..............................................................................................................
5.4 Using font: java.awt.Font ..........................................................................................................
 5.5 Using image: java.awt.Image ....................................................................................................
5.6 Basics of event handling ...........................................................................................................
5.6.1 Event handlers ...................................................................................................................
5.6.2 Adapter classes..................................................................................................................
5.6.3 Actions ..............................................................................................................................
5.6.4 Mouse events ....................................................................................................................
5.6.5 AWT event hierarchy ........................................................................................................
5.7 Introduction to Swing ...............................................................................................................
5.7.1 Hierarchy of Java Swing classes .......................................................................................
5.7.2 Commonly used Methods of Component class .................................................................
5.7.3 Java Swing Examples........................................................................................................
5.8 Layout management .................................................................................................................
5.8.1 BorderLayout ....................................................................................................................
5.8.2 FlowLayout .......................................................................................................................
5.8.3 GridLayout ........................................................................................................................
5.8.4 CardLayout .......................................................................................................................
5.8.5 GridBagLayout - Gridlayout without limitations ..............................................................
5.8.6 BoxLayout– javax.swing ..................................................................................................
5.9 Swing Components ...................................................................................................................
5.9.1 Text Fields ........................................................................................................................
5.9.2 Text Areas .........................................................................................................................
5.9.3 Buttons ..............................................................................................................................
5.9.4 Check boxes ......................................................................................................................
5.9.5 Radio Buttons....................................................................................................................
5.9.6 List ....................................................................................................................................
5.9.7 Choices ..............................................................................................................................
5.9.8 Scrollbars ..........................................................................................................................
5.9.9 Windows ...........................................................................................................................
5.9.10 Menus................................................................................................................................
5.9.11 Dialog Boxes .....................................................................................................................
OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LABORATORY ................................................
Two Mark Questions with Answers ..............................................................................................
Model Question Papers...................................................................................................................