Java Skills Checklist

Java Checklist:

Classes
	- Constructors
	- fields
	- Access Modifiers - public, protected, private
	- Nested Classes
	- Anonymous Classes
	- Lambda References

Interfaces
	- Creation

Enums
	- Creation

Variables
	- Fields
	- static variables
	- constants

Data types
	- Predefined objects
	- User defined
	- Primitive data types
	- Arrays

Control Statements
	- If, else, else if
	- Switch
	- While loop
	- For loop
	- Improved for loop
	- Return, Break, Continue

Methods
	- Static, instance
	- Return

Annotations
	- Creation
	- Predefined Annotation Types

Inheritance
	- Overriding
	- Super, subclasses
	- Extends vs Implements

Strings
	- Formatting
	- String methods

Generics

Packages
	- Creating packages
	- Compiling classes manually
	- CLASSPATH

Exceptions
	- Try, catch, finally
	- Checked vs unchecked exceptions

I/O
	- Streams
	- Character streams (Know the difference between byte and character streams)
	- Writer/Readers
	- Buffers
	- Paths - abstract, canonical
	- Working with files

Environment
	- Java Properties
	- System Properties
	- Environment Variables
	- CLASS and CLASSPATH
	- Security Manager
	- Storing using YAML

REGEX
	- Regular Expressions


Date Time
	- Joda

Deployment
	- What a jar files is
	- How to create a jar file manually
	- Manifest Files

Unit Tests
	- Test Driven Development Concepts
	- JUNIT

- Java tuts for most of this info.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html

-----------------------Advanced Stuff -----------------------------

Binary mastery
	- Bit shifting
	- Encoding standards

Concurrency
	- Threads, Runnable Class
	- Synchronization, volatile, atomic
	- Locks

Data structures - TODO expand
	- Lists
	- Queues
	- Maps
	- Sets
	- ETC
	- Collections
		- Difference between the underlying data type and collections library

Algorithms - TODO expand
	- Sorting Algorithms
	- Search algorithms
	- Time algs take

Creating JavaDocs
	- How to generate
	- Doc comments
	- @param
	- @throws
	- @return

Using external Libraries
	- Using *
	- Importing libraries
	- Using APIS
	- Working with maven

Swing
	- Components
	- Events
	- Listeners
	- Layout managers

JavaFX
	- No clue.

Networking
	- More coming later.
	- POST, GET HTTP commands
	- Basic networking
		- IP addresses, subnet masks, DNS
		- OSI model
		- Protocols, Transport (UDP/ TCP) vs Application (HTTP)

Build Control
	- Building, deployment
	- Maven
		- Plugins, Goals
		- Build lifecycle
		- Basic XML
		- Maven structure
	- Gradle
		- No clue.

Source Control
	- Git
	- GitHub
	- Basic Commands
	- svn (If your job forces you)

Frameworks / Web Dev
	- Java EE concepts
		- Servlets
		- JSP
		- Containers
	- Spring (Server Backend)
		- REST features
		- Dependency injection
		- MVC systems
			-Freemarker (For view)
	- Spark
	- Web containers (Tomcat / Jetty)
	- REST Concepts
		- Jax-RS (RESTEasy)
	- SOAP concepts
	- XML

Persistency
	- SQL
		- mySQL
	- JDBC
	- JPA
		- Hibernate
		- EclipseLink

Serialization
	- JSON