Java Programming Essentials

• Understand the introduction and features of Java and its significance in the programming world.
• Identify and use data types, variables, and literals in Java, and write basic Java code.
• Develop Java programs using various IDEs, including NetBeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ.
• Read and process input values of various data types using Java’s Scanner class and other methods.
• Apply different operators in Java to perform arithmetic, logical, relational, and other operations.
• Implement control structures using if statements and switch case constructs.
• Utilize iteration statements (loops) such as while, do-while, and for loops in Java programs.
• Implement advanced iteration techniques using break and continue statements.
• Enhance programming skills through practice programs that use loops.
• Understand and use nested loops for solving complex programming tasks.

• By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
• Explain why Java is important, install the JDK, and understand OOP principles like encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction, and polymorphism.
• Declare and use variables, data types, and literals, write Java code, and use command line arguments effectively.
• Create and manage projects in various IDEs, write and execute Java programs, and apply concatenation and command line arguments.
• Read input values using the Scanner class, perform implicit and explicit type casting, and format output using printf() and other methods.
• Use arithmetic, relational, logical, unary, ternary, and compound assignment operators in Java programs with correct precedence and associativity.
• Implement if statements, if-else if ladders, nested if statements, and switch case constructs, and understand their differences.
• Write and understand while, do-while, and for loops, including their properties and sample programs.
• Apply break and continue statements within loops and understand their impact on loop execution.
• Solve various programming problems using loops, such as finding prime numbers, generating Fibonacci series, and more.
• Implement nested loops in Java programs and solve complex problems like printing tables and factorials.

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!