Java Topics: Basic to Advanced
Beginner Level (Core Java Basics)
- Introduction to Java
- Java Installation & Setup (JDK, JRE, JVM)
- Hello World Program
- Java Program Structure
- Java Syntax & Rules
- Data Types & Variables
- Type Casting
- Operators (Arithmetic, Relational, Logical, etc.)
- Input & Output in Java (Scanner, System.out)
- Conditional Statements (if, if-else, switch)
- Loops (for, while, do-while)
- Break and Continue
- Arrays (1D, 2D)
- Strings and String Methods
- StringBuffer and StringBuilder
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
- Classes and Objects
- Methods & Method Overloading
- Constructors & Constructor Overloading
- this keyword
- Static keyword (variables, methods, blocks)
- Inheritance & super keyword
- Method Overriding
- Final keyword
- Access Modifiers (public, private, etc.)
- Encapsulation
- Abstraction (abstract class & methods)
- Interfaces
- Polymorphism (Compile-time & Run-time)
Intermediate Topics
- Nested & Inner Classes
- Wrapper Classes
- Command Line Arguments
- Varargs
- Enum Types
- Packages & import keyword
- Exception Handling (try, catch, finally, throw, throws)
- Custom Exceptions
- Java Collections Framework (JCF)
- List, ArrayList, LinkedList
- Set, HashSet, TreeSet
- Map, HashMap, TreeMap
- Queue, Stack
- Iterators (Iterator, ListIterator)
- Generics
- Autoboxing & Unboxing
Advanced Java Topics
- Multithreading & Concurrency
- Thread Class and Runnable Interface
- Synchronization
- wait(), notify(), notifyAll()
- Thread Lifecycle
- Lambda Expressions
- Functional Interfaces
- Stream API
- File Handling (File, FileReader, BufferedReader, etc.)
- Serialization & Deserialization
- Java I/O (Byte Stream and Character Stream)
- Networking in Java (Socket, ServerSocket)
- JDBC (Java Database Connectivity)
- Connecting Java to MySQL/Oracle
- CRUD Operations
- Annotations
- Reflection API
GUI & Web-Based Java (Optional but Useful)
- JavaFX or Swing Basics
- AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit)
- Event Handling
- Applets (Legacy, optional)
- Servlets (for Web Development)
- JSP (Java Server Pages)
- Java Web MVC Frameworks (Spring MVC, Struts)
- Introduction to Spring Boot
- RESTful APIs in Java