BCA III JAVA Syllabus

UNIT- I

OOP and Java :  Introduction, Objects and Classes, Java Language,

Creating and Executing a Java Application, Understanding the Code of

the Hello. Java Program.

The Primaries :  Introduction, Character Set, Tokens, Constants,

Variables, Operators and Expressions, Library Methods, Strings, I/O

(Input/Output) Statements, Simple Programs, Formatting the Output

Values.

Control Statements :Introduction, ‗if‘ Statement, ‗switch‘

Statement, ‗while‘ Statement, ‗do..while‘ Statement, ‗for‘

Statement.

UNIT-II

Arrays and Methods:  Introduction, One-Dimensional Arrays, TwoDimensional Arrays, Methods, Method Overloading, Recursion.

Classes and Objects :  Introduction, General Form of a Class,

Creation of Objects, Usage of Constructors, ‗this‘ Keyword,

Constructor Overloading, Copy Constructors, Static Data Members,

Static Methods, ‗finalize()‘ Method, Inner Classes and Anonymous

Inner Classes.

Inheritance and Polymorphism :  Introduction, Inheriting the

Variables in a Class, Inheriting the Methods in a Class, Inheritance

and Constructors, Abstract Classes Final Classes.

UNIT-III

The java.lang Package :  Introduction, Type-Wrappers, The Number

Class, The Byte, Short, Integer and Long Classes, The Float and

Double Classes, The Character Class, The Boolean Class, The Process

Class, The Runtime Class, The System Class, The Object Class, The

Class Class, The Math Class, The String Class, String Buffer Class.

Interfaces and Packages : Introduction, Interfaces, Structure of an

interface, Implementation of an Interface, Interface Inheritance,

Packages, The Package Statement, Placing the Classes in a Package,

Package Hierarchy, Import Statement, Hiding the Classes in a

Package, Access Control Modifiers.

Applets:  Introduction, The Life Cycle of an Applet, The Applet

Class, Development and Execution of a Simple Applet, Syntax of

Applet Tag.Page No: 23

UNIT- IV

Exception Handling : Introduction, Default Exception Handling, User

defined Exception Handling Mechanism, Exception and Error Classes,

Catch Block Searching Pattern, ‗throw‘ Statement, ‗throws‘ Clause,

Custom Exceptions.

Multi Threading : Introduction, Life Cycle of a Thread, Creating and

Running Threads, Methods in the Thread Class, Setting the Priority

of a Thread Synchronization, Dead Lock, Inter-Thread Communication,

Applets Involving Threads.

I/O Streams : Introduction, Text and Binary Formats of Data, Input

Stream and Output Stream Classes, Reader and Writer Classes, Data

Output Stream and Data Input Stream Classes, Stream Tokenizer Class,

Random Access File Class, Filter Streams, Print Streams, Object

Streams.

Java Database Connectivity :  Introduction, Establishing a

Connection, Creation of Data Tables, Entering Data into the Tables,

Table Updating, Use of Prepared Statement, Using Transaction,

Scrollable Result Sets, Stored Procedures. 

Prescribed Book :

Programming with Java, by C Muthu, Second Edition, Vijay Nicole

Imprints Private Limited.

(Chapters : 1 to 6, 16, 7, 8, 12 to 14, 18)Page No: 24