Java Programming 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition

Quick and painless Java programming with expert multimedia instruction

Java Programming 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition is your complete beginner’s guide to the Java programming language, with easy-to-follow lessons and supplemental exercises that help you get up and running quickly. Step-by-step instruction walks you through the basics of object-oriented programming, syntax, interfaces, and more, before building upon your skills to develop games, web apps, networks, and automations. This second edition has been updated to align with Java SE 8 and Java EE 7, and includes new information on GUI basics, lambda expressions, streaming API, WebSockets, and Gradle. Even if you have no programming experience at all, the more than six hours of Java programming screencasts will demonstrate major concepts and procedures in a way that facilitates learning and promotes a better understanding of the development process.

This is your quick and painless guide to mastering Java, whether you’re starting from scratch or just looking to expand your skill set.

• Master the building blocks that go into any Java project
• Make writing code easier with the Eclipse tools
• Learn to connect Java applications to databases
• Design and build graphical user interfaces and web applications
• Learn to develop GUIs with JavaFX

If you want to start programming quickly, Java Programming 24-Hour Trainer, 2nd Edition is your ideal solution.

Table of Contents

Lesson 1 Introducing Java
Lesson 2 Eclipse IDE
Lesson 3 Object-Oriented Programming with Java
Lesson 4 Class Methods and Constructors
Lesson 5 Java Syntax: Bits and Pieces
Lesson 6 Packages, Interfaces, and Encapsulation
Lesson 7 Programming with Abstract Classes and Interfaces
Lesson 8 Introducing the GUI with Swing
Lesson 9 Event Handling in Swing GUI
Lesson 10 Error Handling
Lesson 11 Introduction to Collections
Lesson 12 Introduction to Generics
Lesson 13 Lambda Expressions and Functional Style Programming
Lesson 14 Working with I/O Streams
Lesson 15 Java Serialization
Lesson 16 Network Programming Basics
Lesson 17 Concurrency and Multithreading
Lesson 18 Introduction to GUI with JavaFX
Lesson 19 Developing JavaFX Calculator and Tic-Tac-Toe
Lesson 20 Stream API
Lesson 21 Working with Relational DBMS Using JDBC
Lesson 22 Rendering Tabular Data in the GUI
Lesson 23 Annotations and Reflection
Lesson 24 Remote Method Invocation
Lesson 25 Java EE 7 Overview
Lesson 26 Programming with Servlets
Lesson 27 JavaServer Pages
Lesson 28 Developing Web Applications with WebSockets
Lesson 29 Introducing JNDI
Lesson 30 Introducing JMS and MOM
Lesson 31 Introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans
Lesson 32 Overview of the Java Persistence API
Lesson 33 Working with RESTful Web Services
Lesson 34 Java Logging API
Lesson 35 Introduction to Unit Testing with JUnit Framework
Lesson 36 Build Automation with Gradle
Lesson 37 Java Technical Interviews