OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 17 Developer Study Guide

Chapter 1Building Blocks

OCP EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

• Handling date, time, text, numeric and boolean values
  • Use primitives and wrapper classes including Math API, parentheses, type promotion, and casting to evaluate arithmetic and boolean expressions
• Utilizing Java Object-Oriented Approach
  • Declare and instantiate Java objects including nested class objects, and explain the object life-cycle including creation, reassigning references, and garbage collection
  • Understand variable scopes, use local variable type inference, apply encapsulation, and make objects immutable

Welcome to the beginning of your journey to achieve a Java 17 certification. We assume this isn't the first Java programming book you've read. Although ...