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THE FOLLOWING FORUMS AND RESPECTIVE TOPICS ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE:

• .NET BASIC FUNDAMENTALS - A refresher on OOP, basic C# concepts and intro to .NET
• .NET ADVANCED FUNDAMENTALS - .NET Advanced Fundamentals Discussion of more complicated .NET concepts
• MEMORY MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE TOOLS - How .NET manages memory, understanding and identifying typical memory issues and ways to combat/prevent them
• DATA ACCESS - Setup of the Data-access layer and management of object states and transactions
• LINQ - Deep dive into LINQ and concepts such as LINQ to Entities
• ASP.NET MVC/WEBAPI WEB APPLICATION - BASIC TOPICS - Basic discussion of the features of an ASP.NET Web Application
• ASP.NET MVC/WEBAPI WEB APPLICATION - ADVANCED TOPICS - Further discussion of the features of an ASP.NET Web Application, building on the concepts discussed in web application basics
• ASP.NET MVC/WEBAPI WEB APPLICATION SECURITY - Mainly focusing on Security and Filters for authorisation, logging, etc.
• WINDOWS SERVICES/ BACKGROUND WORKERS - Running tasks off main thread, and running tasks in a Windows Service
• DEBUGGING AND TRACING - Proper error logging from servers, avoiding “Yellow screen of Death” in production as well as con guring and using Visual Studio debugging tools
• INTEGRATION - Integration with Web API, WCF services, etc.
• LOCALISATION AND GLOBALISATION - Tools, techniques and considerations when implementing globalisation to gain a better understanding of the building blocks of a globalised application, timezone considerations and translations
• CONCURRENCY AND TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT - Concurrency and transaction management, to provide an in depth understanding of writing more robust and multi-threaded applications

WHAT IS INTERACTION DESIGN?

• Explain the difference between good and poor interaction design
• Describe what interaction design is and how it relates to HCI and other elds
• Explain what usability is
• Describe what is involved in the process of interaction design
• Outline the different forms of guidance used in interaction design
• Enable you to evaluate an interactive product
• Explain what is meant by the problem space
• Explain how to conceptualise interaction
• Describe what a conceptual model is and explain the different kinds
• Discuss the pros and cons of using interface metaphors as conceptual models
• Debate the pros and cons of using realism versus abstraction at the interface
• Outline the relationship between conceptual design and physical design

UNDERSTANDING USERS

UNDERSTANDING REQUIREMENT & NEEDS

• Describe different kinds of requirements
• Enable you to identify examples of different kinds of requirements from a simple description
• Explain how different data-gathering techniques may be used, and enable you to choose among them for a simple description (next session)

WHAT ARE AFFECTIVE ASPECTS AND HOW DO THEY INFLUENCE INTERACTION DESIGN?

INTERFACES & INTERACTIONS

• Present information on a screen
• Determining menus
• Determining navigation
• Designing icons for recognition
• Designing forms and dialog boxes

PROCESS OF INTERACTION DESIGN

• Interaction design process x Feedback
• Prototyping
• Interaction design lifecycle

CORE JAVA

• JVM Components
• Class loading
• Common class loading problems
• Runtime Data Areas
• Garbage Collection Basics
• JVM Tuning
• Re ection Basics

• Closures
• Processing Streams
• Date API
• Collection usage guidelines
• Polymorphism and generics in the Java implementation x Generic methods
• Generic declarations
• Generic pitfalls

INTRO TO SPRING

• Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (The Hollywood Principle)
• Constructor-based dependency injection
• Setter-based dependency injection
• Creating beans with XML Con g/Java Con g
• Collections, Inner beans, Bean Inheritance, Propertiesfrom properties les, Bean Pro les, Bean Scopes and FactoryBean elements
• Application Context

• Sprint Annotations (Component Scanning)
• Best Practices
• Spring Bean Lifecycle (With extension points) x Spring Data Access
• Practical examples
• Spring Boot

ADVANCED SPRING

• Aspect, Point Cuts, Join points and Advice
• Practical uses (e.g logging, transactions and caching) x AOP Proxies
• Practical Example
• Spring/Hibernate Setup and Con guration
• Overview
• Isolation levels
• Transaction Propagation
• Rollback rules

• Testing
• Overview
• Authorization vs Authentication
• Con guration
• Method security
• Security Filter Chain
• Practical examples
• Spring Cloud

MAVEN

• Overview
• Environment Setup
• Build Life Cycle
• Creating Maven projects
• Release management
• Dependency management
• Repository management

• Multi module builds
• Build pro les
• Plug-in management
• Gradle/Ant
• Build automation
• Features of CI Servers
• Compare and contrast different CI Servers

THREADING

• Why write thread safe code
• Stateless Objects, Immutable Objects and using synchronisation
• Check-then-act, read-modify-write x Atomic Operations
• ThreadLocal
• The Synchronised keyword
• The Volatile keyword
• Reentrant Lock
• Synchronised Collections
• Concurrent Collections

• Latches
• Semaphore
• Barrier
• Starting a thread
• Executor (Thread Pools)
• Future Task
• Thread Interuption/Cancellation
• Deadlock
• Performance Considerations

TESTING

• Why produce quality code x Principles of clean code
• Common code smells
• Sonar
• Mocking framework
• Checkstyle
• FindBugs

• What is Integration Testing
• Integration Testing vs Unit Testing x Frameworks for Integration Testing x What makes good unit tests
• Frameworks for unit testing x Testing with Spring
• Gerrit Stash, Upsource
• Crucible

JPA

• Entities
• Entity Relationships
• JPA Annotations
• Cascade Operations
• Fetch Types
• Entity Manager
• Entity Inheritance

• Locking
• Persistence Units
• Query Language
• Named Queries
• Second Level Cache
• Practical examples with repository pattern

INTRO IN JEE

• JEE Overview
• JEE Tiers & their roles
• JEE APIs
• Java EE Containers
• Java EE Container Services

• Java EE Container Types
• Packaging EARs and WARs
• Naming and Directory Concepts and Operations
• Accessing Objects in the directory x JNDI Service Providers

FRAMEWORKS & UTLITIES

• Log levels, what and when to log
• Loggers: Java util logging/Log4J/Logback/tinylog
• Logging abstractions : SLF4J/Commons Logging
• Utilities
• Collections
• Graphs
• Other
• StringUtils/Builder

• HashCodeBuilder/CompareToBuilder/ToStringBuilder
• Builder
• Useful collections
• IOUtils
• Joda Time
• Con guration and usage x Velocity/Thymeleaf
• ehCache/hazelcast/guava cache

EJBs

• Role of EJBs
• Advantages & Disadvantages Dependency Injection
• EJB - Environment setup
• Stateless, Stateful, Singleton, MDB, Entity Beans
• Life Cycles of EJBs
• Remote vs Local Access

• Accessing EJBs
• Annotations
• Xml con g
• Timer Service
• Callbacks
• Asynchronous EJB Method Invocations

INTEGRATION

• Types of Web Services
• Building Web Services with JAX-WS x Building Web Services with JAX-RS x Securing Web services
• Spring con guration and use
• Topics vs Queues

• Consuming & Producing Messages x Message Types
• Message Reliability Mechanisms
• Spring con guration and use

WEB

• Servlet Lifecycle
• Servlet Mapping
• Using scope objects
• Filtering Requests & Responses x Forwarding & redirecting
• Annotations
• Expression Language
• Lifecycle of JSPs
• Jstl

• Creating custom tags
• Directives
• JSF - Description
• The Dispatcher Servlet
• Controllers
• Handler Mapping
• Resolving Views
• AJAX

T-SQL FOUNDATIONS - BASIC SELECTS

• Introduction to T-SQL as a language
• Normalisation
• Data types, CASE statements and related functions, and date and time functions
• Filtering and sorting. TOP and OFFSET_FETCH

COMBINING SETS - GROUPING AND WINDOWING

• Understanding different types of joins
• Sub-queries, table expressions and APPLY
• Set operators (UNION, INTERSECT, EXCEPT) x Writing grouped queries
• PIVOT and UNPIVOT
• Window functions

QUERYING FULL-TEXT DATA AND WORKING WITH XML

• Full-text catalogues and indexes x Using CONTAINS and FREETEXT x Full-text and semantic search
• Query results as XML
• Querying XML data with XQuery x The XML data type

CREATE TABLES, VIEWS AND INLINE FUNCTIONS - ENFORCING DATA INTEGRITY

• Creating a table
• Primary and foreign key constraints
• Unique, check, and default constraints
• Creating and using views, inline functions, and synonyms

INSERTING, UPDATING AND DELETING

• INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements
• The difference between DELETE and TRUNCATE x Identity columns
• MERGE statement
• The OUTPUT option

TRANSACTIONS, ERROR HANDLING, AND DYNAMIC SQL. T-SQL ROUTINES

• Understanding transactions and locking x Error handling
• Dynamic SQL and SQL injection
• Stored procedures
• Triggers
• User-de ned functions (scalar and table-valued)

ANALYSING QUERY PERFORMANCE

• Introduction to query optimisation
• Execution plans and pro ler
• Dynamic management objects
• Indexes, search arguments, and statistics

CURSORS, SETS AND TEMP TABLES. FURTHER OPTIMISATION

• Iterative/cursor vs set-based operations
• Temporary tables and table variables
• Advanced optimisation aspects