Introduction to Java Programming Fundamentals

• Compare the fundamental features of HTML and JSP, highlighting their respective roles in web development.
• Examine the process of session management in JSP, analysing how data is stored and retrieved using session objects.
• Categorize the diverse types of HTML forms, demonstrating how data is read and processed from various form elements.
• Differentiate between servlets and JSP, elucidating their individual strengths and use cases in web development.
• Distinguish the key characteristics of JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) and its significance in servlets for database interaction.
• Estimate the execution time and resource usage of different Java programs, considering factors like loop complexity and method calls.
• Predict the output of Java programs involving conditional statements, loops, and method calls, enhancing the ability to foresee program behaviour.
• Rate the efficiency and appropriateness of different loop structures in Java, providing insights into their optimal use cases.
• Arrange the steps involved in installing and configuring a Tomcat server, demonstrating the systematic setup required for web development.
• Assemble a comprehensive JSTL (JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library) example, integrating various JSTL tags to achieve specific functionality.

• By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
• Experiment with various Java features, gaining practical insights into their applications.
• Make use of Java advantages, understanding when and how to apply its features in programming scenarios.
• Utilize Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Netbeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ effectively.
• Combine variables and literals creatively, highlighting a nuanced understanding in Java code.
• Solve programming challenges using a variety of operators, demonstrating problem-solving skills.
• Predict and control program flow through effective use of control structures like if statements and switch case.
• Survey and master various looping techniques, including while, do..while, and for loops.
• Compare and evaluate different programming constructs, distinguishing use cases for if statements, switch case, and various loop types.
• Examine the functionality of Integer and Float class methods, applying them effectively in Java programming scenarios.
• Differentiate array manipulation techniques and explore search/sort methods, including linear search, binary search, bubble sort, and selection sort.

The academic approach of the course focuses on ‘work-centric’ education. With this hands-on approach, derive knowledge from and while working to make it more wholesome, delightful and useful. The ultimate objective is to empower learners to also engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at bringing learners closer to their rewarding careers as well as to the development of the community.

• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!