Basic Java 8 and OO Programming Essentials for Developers New to OO

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in core OO coding and Java development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. In this course you will learn about:

· Understand what OO programming is and what the advantages of OO are in today's world

· Work with objects, classes, and OO implementations

· Understand the basic concepts of OO such as encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction

· Understand not only the fundamentals of the Java language, but also its importance, uses, strengths and weaknesses

· Understand the basics of the Java language and how it relates to OO programming and the Object Model

· Learn to use Java exception handling

· Understand and use classes, inheritance and polymorphism

· Understand and use collections, generics, autoboxing, and enumerations

· Become familiar with the concept of functional programming using Lambda Expressions

· Process large amounts of data using the Stream API introduced in Java 8

· Discover the new Date/Time API

· Use the JDBC API for database access

· Work with annotations

· Take advantage of the Java tooling that is available with the programming environment being used in the class

· Java 8 Features: Lambda Expressions, Method and Constructor references, The Streams API, Collectors, The Optional class