Get started programming in Java with this three-hour capsule course. Learn how to create classes, control program logic and flow, and build basic graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- What is Java?
- Downloading the Java IDE (NetBeans)
- Flowcharting and UML diagrams
- Understanding algorithms
- Exploring the IDE
- Command-line programming with Java
- Creating Java docs
- Anatomy of a Java program
- Understanding data types
- Using strings
- Understanding arrays
- Understanding implicit and explicit conversion
- Debugging logic and syntax errors
- Using the debugger
- Challenge: Simple calculation
- Solution: Simple calculation
- Understanding basic expressions
- Working with decisions
- Comparing different types of loops
- Using predefined functions
- Creating user-defined functions
- Using call by value and call by reference
- Overloading functions
- Challenge: Hospital stay
- Solution: Hospital stay
- Creating classes
- Instantiating classes
- Using encapsulation
- Understanding inheritance
- Working with polymorphism
- Challenge: Movie list
- Solution: Movie list
- Revisiting arrays
- Working with two-dimenional arrays
- Using ArrayLists
- Introducing recursion
- Sorting arrays
- Searching arrays
- Challenge: Groceries
- Solution: Groceries
- Implementing file operations
- Handling errors
- Challenge: Loading a file
- Solution: Loading a file
- Frames, events, and event handling
- Challenge: GUI
- Solution: GUI
- Next steps
Taught by
Peggy Fisher
