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1. Introduction1.1. Course Structure1.2. Learning Goals1.3. Course Lecturers1.4. Topics1.5. Bibliography1.6. Tools1.7. Evaluation1.8. Agreements
2. Course Project2.1. Scope2.2. Rules of the Game2.3. Important Dates2.4. Requirements2.5. Tips
3. Git 1013.1. Introduction3.2. Installing Git3.3. Basic shell commands3.4. Git commands3.5. Ignoring files3.6. Branches3.7. Remote repositories
4. How Java Works4.1. Introduction4.2. Java Architecture4.3. Variables and Parameters4.4. Java Memory Model
5. Exception Handling5.1. Introduction5.2. Exception Types5.3. Declaring Exceptions Thrown by Methods5.4. Throwing Exceptions5.5. Custom Exceptions5.6. Accessing the Stack Trace
6. Inheritance6.1. Introduction6.2. Interfaces6.3. Method Overriding6.4. Multiple Inheritance6.5. Abstract Classes6.6. Method Overloading6.7. Polymorphism6.8. The Object Class6.9. Casting
7. Generic Programming7.1. Introduction7.2. Generic Methods7.3. Bounded and Unbounded Type Parameters7.4. Generic Types
8. Arrays8.1. One Dimensional Arrays8.2. Multidimensional Arrays8.3. The Arrays class8.4. Varags8.5. Limitations
9. Java Collections Framework9.1. Introduction9.2. The Collection Interface9.3. Lists9.4. Sets9.5. Queues9.6. The Collections Class9.7. Maps9.8. Choosing My Collection
10. Lambda Expressions10.1. Introduction10.2. What is a Lambda Expression?10.3. Functional Interfaces10.4. Local Variables in Lambda Expressions10.5. Standard Functional Interfaces10.6. Sorting with Lambdas
11. Streams11.1. Introduction11.2. Pipelines11.3. IntStream11.4. Optionals11.5. Operations
12. Maven12.1. Introduction12.2. Compiling Java12.3. Getting Started12.4. Coordinates12.5. Repositories12.6. Project Object Model12.7. Dependencies12.8. Standard Directory Layout12.9. Lifecycles and Phases12.10. Wrapper12.11. Archetypes12.12. Maven and Git12.13. Common Maven plugins
13. Testing13.1. Introduction13.2. Getting Started with JUnit 513.3. Basics of JUnit 513.4. JUnit Lifecycle API13.5. Expected Exceptions13.6. Timeouts13.7. Nested Tests13.8. Repeating Tests13.9. Third-party Assertion Libraries13.10. FIRST Properties of Good Tests13.11. What to Test: The Right-BICEP13.12. Boundary Conditions: The CORRECT Way
14. Regular Expressions14.1. String Manipulation14.2. Writing Regular Expressions14.3. Using Regular Expressions in String Methods14.4. Regex API
15. Design Patterns15.1. Instructions15.2. What is a Design Pattern?15.3. Gang of Four Design Patterns
16. I/O16.1. File manipulation16.2. I/O Streams16.3. Reading: FileReader and BufferedReader16.4. Reading: Scanner16.5. Reading: Files16.6. Writing Text Files
17. Serialization17.1. Introduction17.2. CSV17.3. JSON17.4. Reading and writing JSON with Jackson17.5. Binary serialization
18. Multithreading18.1. Concurrency18.2. Processes & Threads18.3. Multithreading in Java18.4. Thread Synchronization18.5. Thread Signaling
2. Course Project
Programming Project 2022/23

2.1. Scope

You are expected to work on a project that inspires you. This means that you are free to choose what application you will develop using Java.

What you can do

You can build a information management system, implemented as a desktop app, a command-line app, or a web app.

Here are some past projects in this direction:

  • A JavaFX application for firefighters, in which one could manage emergencies, firefighter teams, and vehicles.
  • A JavaFX application to teach people how to code using a simple self-designed programming language.
  • A collaborative web application for task management.

Although Java is not the most popular language for games, you can build a game as your course project. After all, Minecraft was built in Java and so were these other games!

You may even want to learn an open-source game framework, like libGDX and jMonkeyEngine.

In past editions of this course, students created:

  • A multiplayer pictionary game.
  • A game to help people improve their typing speed.
  • An idle game about collecting resources playable through Telegram.

You can also build a library for other programmers to use when they create their own applications. For inspiration, you can check out popular Java libraries like Google Guava and Apache HTTPComponents.

  • In previous years, a group developed a linear algebra library.

Another idea is a data science project, in which you create graphics and perform statistical analyses to discover interesting insights from a dataset.

If you are into testing, a browser automation project might be right for you. In such a project you will program interactions with websites or web applications and test if they behave as expected. To do that, you will likely need to learn something like the Selenium WebDriver.

If none of these ideas sounds interesting, you could do a web crawling project. In this case, your goal would be to automate the collection of data from one or more websites and showcase this data in an interesting way!

  • For example, a group implemented an crawler to get NBA stats from various websites and then exposed the data via a web API.

That said, if you do not like any of the these ideas, feel free to explore your own and let your creativity flow!

What you cannot do

You CANNOT develop a mobile app.

You CANNOT use a database management system, like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.

Your project CANNOT require the installation of a server to be deployed, such as Apache Tomcat. If you are developing a web application, make sure you embed your server in your jar. If you are developing a Spring Boot application you may want to check this or this guide.

You CANNOT copy and paste a project from the web and call it a day. It is fine, however, to use projects as inspiration. If you reuse any code, make sure that you reference the source explicitly in your documentation.

You CANNOT use other programming languages besides Java. This means that none of Kotlin, Groovy, Closure and Scala can be used.

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