B.Sc. (Information Technology) Core Java Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the SY BSc IT syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it for ATKT candidates, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Core Java
Module I: Introduction to Java Programming-History of Java and its Evolution,Features of Java (Platform Independence, Object
- Oriented),Data Types and Variables,Operators Constants and Literals,Type Casting Decision Making and Loops :If-else Statements,Switch Statement, Loops (For, While, Do-While),Break and Continue Statements Classes and Objects :Array,ArraysString class and String methods, StringBuffer and StringBuilder, Object-Oriented Programming Concepts, Defining Classes and Creating Objects, Instance Variables and Methods, Constructors, this Keyword, super keyword, Types of Classes, Scope Rules, Access Modifier, constants, static members of a class, garbage collection.
- Inheritance: Its types, Superclass and Subclass, Final classes and methods Polymorphism: Compile-time and Runtime Polymorphism
Module II: Interfaces: Defining and Implementing Interfaces,Abstract Classes and 15 Hrs
- Methods,Multiple Interface Implementation Packages: Introduction to predefined packages, User Defined Packages, Access specifier, Java Built-in packages Exception handling- Try, Catch, and Finally Blocks, Throw and Throws Keywords Introduction to Threads: Creating and Running Threads,Thread Lifecycle
Books and References
- 1 Java: The Complete Reference Herbert Schildt MC-Graw HILL 12th EDITION 2022
- 2 Core Java, Volume I: Fundamentals Hortsman Pearson 9th 2013
- 3 Core Java, Volume II: Advanced FeaturesGary Cornell and Hortsman Pearson 8th 2008
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Information Technology) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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