Course Description:

ABILITY TO USE ABSTRACT WINDOWING TOOLKIT (AWT) TO CONSTRUCT USER INTERFACES

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Describe the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) package and its components

Explain containers, components and layout managers, and how they work together to build a GUI

Use the flow, border, grid and card layout managers to achieve a desired dynamic layout

Use the frame and panel containers

Place panels inside other containers to build complex layouts

ABILITY TO USE AWT EVENT MODULES TO HANDLE USER EVENTS

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Write code to handle events that occur in a user interface

Create the appropriate interface and handler method for a variety of event types

Determine the user action that originated the event from the event object details

Determine how and when to use the appropriate adapter class to select a subset of event handlers for an event listener

ABILITY TO USE AWT COMPONENT LIBRARY TO EXTEND USER INTERFACE CAPABILITIES

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Identify the key AWT components

Use the AWT components to build user interfaces for real programs

Control the colors and font used by an AWT component

Use the printing mechanism

ABILITY TO USE JAVA FOUNDATION CLASSES AND SWING PACKAGE FOR USER INTERFACES

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Identify the key features of Java Foundation Class

Describe the key features of the Swing package

Explain containers and components and describe how they work together to build a Swing GUI

Write, compile, and run a basic Swing application

Use top-level containers such as JFrame and JApplet

ABILITY TO USE AND CONSTRUCT JAVA APPLETS

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Describe the difference between a standalone Java application and a Java applet

Write an HTML tag to call a Java applet

Describe the class hierarchy of the Applet and AWT classes

Create the Hello World Java applet

List and describe the major methods of an applet

Use the painting model of AWT

Use applet methods to read images and files from Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

Use <param> tags to configure applets

UNDERSTANDING AND USING JAVA THREADS

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Describe a thread

Create separate threads, controlling the code and data that are used by that thread

Control the execution of a thread and write platform-independent code with threads

Describe some of the difficulties that arise when multiple threads share data

Use the keyword synchronized to protect data from corruption

Use wait() and notify() to communicate between threads

UNDERSTANDING AND USING STREAM I/O AND FILES

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Use the Streams version of the java.io package

Construct and use file and filter streams

Distinguish Readers and Writers from Streams, and select appropriately between them

Examine and manipulate files and directories

Read, write, and update text and data files

Use the Serialization interface to persist the state of objects

CREATING UDP & TCP/IP JAVA NETWORKING PROGRAMS

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Create a minimal TCP/IP server and a minimal TCP/IP client

Create a minimal UDP server and a minimal UDP client