Course Audience
Professionals with an excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, with a keen interest in learning how to program comprehensively. PC Maintenance and Repair is a good pre-requisite course to take, but not essential.

Course Overview
The aim of this course is to teach newcomers the basics of programming using JAVA. The course aims at improving reasoning abilities in order to solve problems commonly encountered when writing programs and help develop the skills necessary to structure any program in a logical manner. Trainees will learn about data abstraction, modular program design, structured programming techniques. The course is suitable for anyone who wishes to learn to write structured computer programs and understand the methodology needed to manage complex programming tasks. It serves as an excellent introduction to the field of programming, giving attendees a taste of java essentials allowing for enhanced web page design and development of cross platform applications. The course is also ideal for those wishing to go on to program professionally in Java.

Course Content
Introduction to JAVA
Java, HTML and the WWW
Technical foundations
Advantages of Java
Features and functions of Applets
Introduction to Java Basics, loops, conditional statements, variables.
Java and Object Oriented programming
Java language syntax
Java classes and interfaces
Enhancing web pages
Multi-Media applets
Applets in a Web page
Plugging in existing applets
Applet tag syntax
Building custom applets
Building standalone Java apps
Commercial development environments
Java libraries and classes
Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT)
Creating controls with AWT
Menus and menubars
Dialogs
Subclass in
Standard Java Classes Java security
Class access mechanisms
Protecting your system against viruses
The future of Java and Java development / The future of internets and intranets / Developing Java applications

Duration / Commencement date
This course is usually delivered over a 12 week period.
Please contact CCT directly for the next Commencement date

Price
EUR650 Over a 12 week period, 2 hours a day.