From 0 to 1: Learn Java Programming -Live Free,Learn To Code

About From 0 to 1: Learn Java Programming -Live Free,Learn To Code

Taught by a Stanford-educated, ex-Googler, husband-wife team

This course will use Java and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Never fear, we have a detailed video on how to get this downloaded and set up.

Hundreds of lines of source code, and hundreds of lines of comments - just download and open in your IDE! _

A Java course for everyone - accessible yet serious, to take you from absolute beginner to an early intermediate level

_ Let’s parse that.

This is a Java course for

everyone

. Whether you are a complete beginner (a liberal arts major, an accountant, doctor, lawyer) or an engineer with some programming experience but looking to learn Java - this course is right for you.

The course is

accessible

because it assumes absolutely no programming knowledge, and quickly builds up using first principles alone

Even so, this is a

serious

Java programming class - the gradient is quite steep, and you will go from absolute beginner to an early intermediate level

The course is also

quirky

. The examples are irreverent. Lots of little touches: repetition, zooming out so we remember the big picture, active learning with plenty of quizzes. There’s also a peppy soundtrack, and art - all shown by studies to improve cognition and recall.

What's Covered:

Programming Basics:

What programming is, and a carefully thought-through tour of the basics of any programming. Installing and setting up an IDE and writing your first program

The Object-Oriented Paradigm:

Classes, Objects, Interfaces, Inheritance; how an OO mindset differs from a functional or imperative programming mindset; the mechanics of OO - access modifiers, dynamic dispatch, abstract base classes v interfaces. The underlying principles of OO: encapsulation, abstraction, polymorphism

Threading and Concurrency:

A deep and thorough study of both old and new ways of doing threading in Java: Runnables, Callables, Threads, processes, Futures, Executors.

Reflection, Annotations

: The how, what and why - also the good and bad

Lambda Functions:

Functional constructs that have made the crossover into the mainstream of Java - lambda functions, aggregate operators.

Modern Java constructs:

Interface default methods; properties and bindings too. Also detailed coverage of Futures and Callables, as well as of Lambda functions, aggregation operators. JavaFX as contrasted with Swing.

Packages and Jars:

The plumbing is important to understand too.

Language Features:

Serialisation; why the Cloneable interface sucks; exception handling; the immutability of Strings; the Object base class; primitive and object reference types; pass-by-value and pass-by-object-reference.

Design

: The MVC Paradigm, Observer and Command Design Patterns.

Swing

: Framework basics; JFrames, JPanels and JComponents; Menus and menu handling; Trees and their nuances; File choosers, buttons, browser controls. A very brief introduction to JavaFX.

Programming Drills

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(code-alongs, with source code included)

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Serious stuff:

A

daily stock quote summariser:

scrapes the internet, does some calculations, and outputs a nice, formatted Excel spreadsheet.

A

News Curation app

to summarise newspaper articles into a concise email snippet using serious Swing programming

Simple stuff:

Support with choosing a programming environment; downloading and setting up IntelliJ.

Simple hello-world style programs in functional, imperative and object-oriented paradigms.

Maps, lists, arrays. Creating, instantiating and using objects, interfaces