UNIT I : 
Object oriented thinking :- Need for oop paradigm, A way of viewing world – Agents, responsibility, messages, methods, classes and instances, class hierarchies (Inheritance), method binding, overriding and exceptions, summary of oop concepts, coping with complexity, abstraction mechanisms. 
 
UNIT II : 
Java Basics History of Java, Java buzzwords, datatypes, variables, scope and life time of variables, arrays, operators, expressions, control statements, type conversion and costing, simple java program, classes and objects – concepts of classes, objects, constructors, methods, access control, this keyword, garbage collection, overloading methods and constructors, parameter passing, recursion, string handling. 
 
UNIT III : 
Inheritance – Hierarchical abstractions, Base class object, subclass, subtype, substitutability, forms of inheritance- specialization, specification, construction, extension, limitation, combination, benefits of inheritance, costs of inheritance. Member access rules, super uses, using final with inheritance, polymorphism- method overriding, abstract classes. 
 
UNIT IV : 
Packages and Interfaces : Defining, Creating and Accessing a Package, Understanding CLASSPATH, importing packages, differences between classes and interfaces, defining an interface, implementing interface, applying interfaces, variables in interface and extending interfaces. 
Exploring packages – Java.io, java.util. 
 
UNIT V : 
Exception handling and multithreading - Concepts of exception handling, benefits of exception handling, Termination or resumptive models, exception hierarchy, usage of try, catch, throw, throws and finally, built in exceptions, creating own exception sub classes. Differences between multi threading and multitasking, thread life cycle, creating threads, synchronizing threads, daemon threads, thread groups. 
 
UNITVI : 
Event Handling : Events, Event sources, Event classes, Event Listeners, Delegation event model, handling mouse and keyboard events, Adapter classes, inner classes.The AWT class hierarchy, user interface components- labels, button, canvas, scrollbars, text components, check box, check box groups, choices, lists panels – scrollpane, dialogs, menubar, graphics, layout manager – layout manager types – boarder, grid, flow, card and grib bag. 
 
UNIT VII : 
Applets – Concepts of Applets, differences between applets and applications, life cycle of an applet, types of applets, creating applets, passing parameters to applets. 
Swing – Introduction, limitations of AWT, MVC architecture, components, containers, exploring swing- JApplet, JFrame and JComponent, Icons and Labels, text fields, buttons – The JButton class, Check boxes, Radio buttons, Combo boxes, Tabbed Panes, Scroll Panes, Trees, and Tables. 
 
UNIT VIII : 
Networking – Basics of network programming, addresses, ports, sockets, simple client server program, multiple clients, Java .net package 
Packages – java.util, 
 
TEXT BOOKS : 
1. Java; the complete reference, 7th editon, Herbert schildt, TMH. 
2. Understanding OOP with Java, updated edition, T. Budd, pearson eduction.  

REFERENCES : 
1. An Introduction to programming and OO design using Java, J.Nino and F.A. Hosch, John wiley & sons. 
2. An Introduction to OOP, second edition, T. Budd, pearson education. 
3. Introduction to Java programming 6th edition, Y. Daniel Liang, pearson education. 
4. An introduction to Java programming and object oriented application development, R.A. Johnson- Thomson. 
5. Core Java 2, Vol 1, Fundamentals, Cay.S.Horstmann and Gary  Cornell, seventh Edition, Pearson Education. 
6 .Core Java 2, Vol 2, Advanced Features, Cay.S.Horstmann and Gary  Cornell, Seventh Edition, Pearson Education 
7. Object Oriented Programming through Java, P. Radha Krishna,  University Press.