Java Conversion Course

Course details

• Tuesday 23, Thursday 25 April 2013, 1330-1630
• Maths Sciences Labs, Second Floor, Senate House University
• Prerequisites: Must be a competent programmer in a modern programming language. Very basic command linke skills an advantage

Course description

This short course is a conversion course for programmers who know some other programming language and wish to learn the basics of Java. Although it is aimed at members of the bioinformatics community, this is open to all, although numbers will be strictly limited. The course will introduce the essential syntax and semantics of the Java lanaguage -- it will not cover principles of programming or algorithmics.

• Overview of Java
• Control flow, selection and loops
• Method calls and parameter passing
• Basic I/O
• Object-orientation and classes in Java
• The Java Reference model
• Exceptions
• Key classes in the Java API
• Introduction to Biojava

To attend

• Please paste the form below into an email, fill in the details and send to courses@bioinf.wits.ac.za.
• There is no charge.
• Numbers are limited.

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