Introduction to IBM's VisualAge for Java, class, course from Knowledge Systems Corporation

This five-day course provides a solid working knowledge of the Java language and the IBM VisualAge for Java Professional environment. Participants create Java methods and classes and develop elementary Java applets and applications, using a broad range of VisualAge browsers and tools. Participants view and use the major collection classes, including Vector and Hashtable. Participants also create basic VisualAge visual beans. The course format is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on computer time.

Developers who need to understand the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Java and the VisualAge for Java environment

Day 1	Day 2
Introduction to Java VisualAge for Java environment Review of basic object-oriented concepts Messages and methods Classes and instances Java data types Variables and literals Type conversion and casting Operators and precedence Projects and packages Creating classes Instance variables Creating methods Return values	The Inspector Comments and Javadoc Creating subclasses The Object class Browsers Searching in VisualAge Java Parameter passing Method overloading The Debugger
Day 3	Day 4
The Sun Java class library The Math class The Date and Calendar classes Strings StringBuffers Blocks Conditionals and loops Creating a constructor Default constructors Constructor overloading	Designing inheritance hierarchies Creating interfaces Common Java interfaces Collections overview Vectors and enumerations Wrapper classes Hashtables Basic exception handling Access control Class variables and methods
Day 5
Creating Java applications Visual programming and beans Visual Composition page Bean palette Connections	Streams File streams Creating Java applets Applets and HTML Import and export


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