UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE PROGRAMME IN COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH
DATA SCIENCE
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2023-2024
Year: I Semester: II
Java Programming 127C2A
Common for B.C.A. , B.Sc.-SA , B.Sc.-CSc , B.Sc.-CSc-wAI , B.Sc.-CSc-wDS
Credits 5 Lecture Hours:4 per week
Learning Objectives: (for teachers: what they have to do in the class/lab/field)
To provide fundamental knowledge of object-oriented programming.
To equip the student with programming knowledge in Core Java from the basics up.
To enable the students to use AWT controls, Event Handling and Swing for GUI.
Course Outcomes: (for students: To know what they are going to learn)
CO1: Understand the basic Object-oriented concepts. Implement the basic constructs of
Core Java
CO2: Implement inheritance, packages, interfaces and exception handling of Core Java.
CO3: Implement multi-threading and I/O Streams of Core Java
CO4: Implement AWT and Event handling.
CO5: Use Swing to create GUI.
Units Contents
I Introduction: Review of Object-Oriented concepts - Java buzzwords (Platform
independence, Portability, Threads)- JVM architecture –Java Program structure - –
Java main method - Java Console output(System.out) - simple java program - Data
types - Variables - type conversion and casting- Java Console input: Buffered input -
operators - control statements - Static Data - Static Method - String and String Buffer
Classes
II Java user defined Classes and Objects – Arrays – constructors - Inheritance: Basic
concepts - Types of inheritance - Member access rules - Usage of this and Super key
word - Method Overloading - Method overriding - Abstract classes - Dynamic method
dispatch - Usage of final keyword -Packages: Definition - Access Protection -
Importing Packages - Interfaces: Definition – Implementation – Extending Interfaces
III Exception Handling: try – catch - throw - throws –- finally – Built-in exceptions -
Creating own Exception classes - garbage collection, finalise -Multithreaded
Programming: Thread Class - Runnable interface – Synchronization – Using
synchronized methods – Using synchronized statement - Interthread Communication –
Deadlock.
IV The AWT class hierarchy - Swing: Introduction to Swing - Hierarchy of swing
components. Containers - Top level containers - JFrame - JWindow - JDialog - JPanel
- JButton - JToggleButton - JCheckBox - JRadioButton - JLabel,JTextField -
JTextArea - JList - JComboBox – JscrollPane - Event Handling: Events - Event
sources - Event Listeners - Event Delegation Model (EDM) - Handling Mouse and
Keyboard Events
V Adapter classes - Inner classes -Java Util Package / Collections Framework:Collection
& Iterator Interface- Enumeration- List and ArrayList- Vector- Comparator
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE PROGRAMME IN COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH
DATA SCIENCE
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2023-2024
Learning Resources:
Recommended Texts
Herbert Schildt, The Complete Reference, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 7th Edition, 2010.
Gary Cornell, Core Java 2 Volume I – Fundamentals, Addison Wesley, 1999.
Reference Books
Head First Java, O’Rielly Publications, Y. Daniel Liang, Introduction to Java Programming,
7th Edition, Pearson Education India, 2010.
