JP-Project

Week 1 (9/2)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'chassis' interface

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Understanding Java Technology and Environment'
     • Describe Java Technology and the Java development
     • Identify key features of the Java language

Week 2 (9/9)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'Engine' interface

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Working with Java Primitive Data Types and String APIs'
     • Declare and initialize variables (including casting and promoting primitives)
     • Identify the scope of variables
     • Use local variable type inference
     • Create and manipulate Strings
     • Manipulate data using the StringBuilder class and its methods

Week 3 (9/16)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'VehicleChassis' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Working with Java Arrays'
     • Declare, instantiate, initialize and use a one-dimensional array
     • Declare, instantiate, initialize and use a two-dimensional array

Week 4 (9/23)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'VehicleFrame' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Creating and Using Methods'
     • Create methods and constructors with arguments and return values
     • Create and invoke overloaded methods
     • Apply the static keyword to methods and fields

Week 5 (9/30)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'ManufacturedEngine' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Reusing Implementations Through Inheritance'
     • Create and use subclasses and superclasses
     • Create and extend abstract classes
     • Enable polymorphism by overriding methods
     • Utilize polymorphism to cast and call methods
     • Distinguish overloading, overriding, and hiding

Week 6 (10/7)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'Feature' interface

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Handling Exceptions'
     • Describe the advantages of Exception handling and differentiate among checked, unchecked, exceptions, and errors
     • Create try-catch blocks and determine how exceptions alter program flow
     • Create and invoke a method that throws an exception

Week 7 (10/14)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'InteriorFeature' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Creating a Simple Java Program'
     • Create an executable Java program with a main class
     • Compile and run a Java program from the command line
     • Create and import packages

Week 8 (10/21)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'ExteriorFeature' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Using Operators and Decision Constructs'
     • Use Java operators including the use of parnethesis to override operator precendence
     • Use Java control statements including if, if/else, switch
     • Create and use do/while, while, for and for each loops, including nested loops, use break and continue statements

Week 9 (10/28)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'Vehicle' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Describing and Using Objects and Classes'
     • Declare and instantiate Java objects, and explain objects' lifecycles
     • Define the structure of a Java class
     • Read or write to object fields

Week 10 (11/4)

1. JP Project

   • Create 'Car' class

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Applying Encapsulation'
     • Apply access modifiers
     • Apply encapsulation principles to a class

Week 11 (11/11)

1. JP Project

   • ???

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Programming Abstractly Through Interfaces'
     • Create and implement interfaces
     • Distinguish class inheritance from interface inheritance including abstract classes
     • Declare and use List and ArrayList instances
     • Understanding Lambda Expressions

Week 12 (11/18)

1. JP Project

   • ???

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Study 'Understanding Modules'
     • Describe the Modular JDK
     • Declare modules and enable access between modules
     • Describe how a modular project is compiled and run

Week 13 (11/25)

1. JP Project

   • ???

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • ???

Week 14 (12/2)

1. JP Project

   • ???

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • ???

Week 15 (12/9 - Submission)

1. JP Project

   • Submit Project

2. Certification Exam Topics

   • Take exam (on / before)