Oracle Java Certification: 1. Data Types

35mIntermediate2019-02-08

Authors

Baochuan Lu

Baochuan Lu, PhD, is a professor at Southwest Baptist University.

Course details

Earning the Java SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) certification can help you boost your professional credibility by demonstrating your Java programming expertise to others in your field. The Oracle Java Certification series was designed to help you prepare to take and pass the qualifying exam for this certification, Java SE 8 Programmer I (1Z0-808). In this course—the first installment in the series—instructor Baochuan Lu focuses on a key topic covered on the test: data types. He reviews both primitive and reference data types, discussing overflow and underflow, primitive and reference type casting, reference scope, and more.

Learning objectives
Data types
Allowable operations
Literals and primitives
Prefixes and suffixes
Reference types
Identifier rules
Conversions
Casting

Skills covered

JavaOracleCert PrepProgramming LanguagesSoftware Development

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Get to the next level in your Java programming journey
02 - Exercise file setup

1. Data Types

03 - Overview of data types
04 - Examples of primitives
05 - Define data with literals
06 - Overflow and underflow

2. References

07 - Reference types
08 - Java identifiers
09 - Primitive type casting
10 - Reference type casting
11 - Reference scope

Conclusion

12 - Next steps