Advanced Java Programming and Web Development using Java

• Understand the basics of Java strings and advanced string manipulation techniques using StringBuilder and StringBuffer classes.
• Demonstrate multithreading concepts and implement Java threads using the Runnable interface and Thread class.
• Apply JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) to connect Java applications to MySQL databases and execute SQL queries.
• Implement file handling operations using streams, BufferedReader, and InputStreamReader for reading and writing files.
• Create and manage Java applets, including their life cycle and event handling.
• Develop Java Swing applications, handling various GUI components like buttons, checkboxes, and menus.
• Design web applications using JSP (JavaServer Pages), handling forms, sessions, and cookies.
• Work with Servlets to create dynamic web applications and manage user interactions between multiple pages.
• Explore advanced database interactions with JDBC in JSP and Servlets for data retrieval and manipulation.
• Understand and implement design patterns, especially in Java web applications, to improve software scalability and maintainability.

• Explain string handling techniques and efficiently manipulate strings using StringBuilder and StringBuffer classes.
• Create multithreaded applications by implementing Java threads using both the Runnable interface and the Thread class.
• Implement JDBC to connect Java applications to MySQL databases, execute SQL commands, and handle query results.
• Read and write data from files using Java streams and implement file handling techniques.
• Develop Java applets with proper event handling, demonstrating the applet life cycle and integration into web applications.
• Build interactive Java Swing applications using GUI components and event listeners to handle user input.
• Design dynamic web applications using JSP, integrating form handling, session management, and cookie usage.
• Create servlets to handle HTTP requests, manage sessions, and pass data between multiple web pages.
• Utilize JDBC within JSP and Servlets to perform database operations such as SELECT, INSERT, and DELETE.
• Apply design patterns in Java web development to enhance code structure, maintainability, and scalability.

The Academic Approach of the course focuses on the “work centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book !), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as well as development of the society.

Learning methodology

• Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
• Learners are then exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Learners are then acquainted with the architecture of the tool or Tool Map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions and their inter-relations.
• Learners are then exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level
• Learners then perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made outputs.
• Learners are then engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Learners are then encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• After imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression.

Evaluation Pattern of DEEP Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

MKCL’s DEEP Certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

1. Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
2. Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
   • Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments