• What is programming?
• Flowcharts
• Why Java ?
• Differences between JDK/JRE/JVM
• Platform independence
• JVM Architecture, JVM memory management, Stack & Heap usage
• Install Java, set ‘path’ and ‘classpath’
• Install and Setup IDE

• Introduction to Java ‘class’
• “Hello World” class
• Class members: structure of property/methods definitions
• Intro to Object/Instance; ‘this’ keyword and ‘new’ keyword;
• what happens in stack + heap on instance creation

• Reserved keywords
• Primitive data types;  how value range is arrived at for each (binary/decimal intro)
• Wrapper classes – auto boxing/unboxing
• Literals
• Type and type-casting
• main() method
• Constructors
• Arithmetic operators;  assignment: calculator class
• Explain access modifiers, package (private/public/protected/’friendly’)
• Logical operators
• Relational operators
• Operators’ associativity and precedence
• Method parameters - pass by value/reference
• Condition checking:
  • If-else
  • Ternary
  • switch-case-default
• Loops:
  • for: different variations
  • while
  • do-while
  • ‘break , continue’ keywords

• Data encapsulation
• Inheritance
• ‘super’, ‘final’ keywords
• Polymorphism - Runtime type identification & dynamic binding
• Method overriding, and overloading
• ‘static’ members: property, method, block 
• Intro to ‘interface’, and implementation
• ‘abstract’ keyword: class, method 
• Variable scope & visibility [static (class), non-static (instance), method, block level]

• Scanner class and its important methods
• String class and its important methods
• Math class and its important methods
• StringBuilder, StringTokenizer classes & important methods
• Java.util.Date & Calendar : creation, methods, day/time difference, formators etc

• Arrays : 1-D arrays, 2-D arrays, array operations
• List & ArrayList; intro to LinkedList
• Intro to HashMap
• Collections class
• Iterators
• Comparator & Comparable

• What is ‘Exception’ ?
• Error v/s Exception
• Checked/unchecked exceptions
• ‘throw’, ‘throws’ keywords
• Try-catch-finally block

• Text file handling: create txt file, read/write texts
• List of files/sub-folders of a folder, File n Folder info
• Intro to text Reader/Writer streams

• Stack, Queue: implement w/ your own interface and multiple implementing classes
  Conversions b/w Infix, Prefix, Postfix notations
• Sorting techniques (bubble, selection, insertion)
• Recursion: Concept of recursion, simple recursive methods (i.e. factorial, GCD, binary search, conversion of representations of numbers between different bases, tower of Hanoi)
• Singly linked list: implement with methods like insertion, deletion, reversal, extracting an element or a sublist, checking emptiness.
• Binary Tree: concepts of root, internal nodes, external nodes (leaves), height (tree, node), depth (tree, node), level, size, degree, siblings, sub tree, completeness, balancing, traversals (pre, post and in-order)

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