Java Programming For Complete Beginners In 250 Steps

We love Programming. Our aim with this course is to create a love for Programming.

Java is one of the most popular programming languages. Java offers both object oriented and functional programming features.

We take an hands-on approach using a combination of JShell(An awesome new feature in Java 9) and Eclipse as an IDE to illustrate more than 200 Java Coding Exercises, Puzzles and Code Examples.

In more than 250 Steps, we explore the most important Java Programming Language Features

Basics of Java Programming - Expressions, Variables and Printing Output

Java Operators - Java Assignment Operator, Relational and Logical Operators, Short Circuit Operators

Java Conditionals and If Statement

Methods - Parameters, Arguments and Return Values

Object Oriented Programming - Class, Object, State and Behavior

Basics of OOPS - Encapsulation, Abstraction, Inheritance and Polymorphism

Basics about Java Data Types - Casting, Operators and More

Java Built in Classes - BigDecimal, String, Java Wrapper Classes

Conditionals with Java - If Else Statement, Nested If Else, Java Switch Statement, Java Ternary Operator

Loops - For Loop, While Loop in Java, Do While Loop, Break and Continue

Immutablity of Java Wrapper Classes, String and BigDecimal

Java Dates - Introduction to LocalDate, LocalTime and LocalDateTime

Java Array and ArrayList - Java String Arrays, Arrays of Objects, Primitive Data Types, toString and Exceptions

Introduction to Variable Arguments

Basics of Designing a Class - Class, Object, State and Behavior. Deciding State and Constructors.

Understanding Object Composition and Inheritance

Java Abstract Class and Interfaces. Introduction to Polymorphism.

Java Collections - List Interface(ArrayList, LinkedList and Vector), Set Interface (HashSet, LinkedHashSet and TreeSet), Queue Interface (PriorityQueue) and Map Interface (HashMap, HashTable, LinkedHashMap and TreeMap() - Compare, Contrast and Choose

Generics - Why do we need Generics? Restrictions with extends and Generic Methods, WildCards - Upper Bound and Lower Bound.

Functional Programming - Lambda Expression, Stream and Operations on a Stream (Intermediate Operations - Sort, Distinct, Filter, Map and Terminal Operations - max, min, collect to List), Functional Interfaces - Predicate Interface,Consumer Interface, Function Inteface for Mapping, Method References - static and instance methods

Introduction to Threads and MultiThreading - Need for Threads

Implementing Threads - Extending Thread Class and Implementing Runnable Interface

States of a Thread and Communication between Threads

Introduction to Executor Service - Customizing number of Active Threads. Returning a Future, invokeAll and invokeAny

Introduction to Exception Handling - Your Thought Process during Exception Handling. try, catch and finally. Exception Hierarchy - Checked Exceptions vs Unchecked Exceptions. Throwing an Exception. Creating and Throwing a Custom Exception - CurrenciesDoNotMatchException. Try with Resources - New Feature in Java 7.

List files and folders in Directory with Files list method, File walk method and find methods. Read and write from a File.

You want to learn Programming

You are a beginner and want to explore Java further

You want to learn the basics of Object Oriented Programming with Java

You want to learn the basics of Functional Programming with Java

Connectivity to Internet to download Java 9 and Eclipse.

We will help you install Eclipse and Java 9

Oracle Solaris or 64 bit Microsoft Windows or Linux or macOS

Java 9 does NOT work on 32 bit Microsoft Windows! You would need a 64 bit Microsoft Windows if you would want to use Windows.

You will learn how to think as a Java Programmer

You will learn how to start your journey as a Java Programmer

You will learn the basics of Eclipse IDE and JShell

You will learn to develop awesome object oriented programs with Java

You will solve a wide variety of hands-on exercises with Java

You will learn the basics of programming - variables, choosing a data type, conditional execution, loops, writing great methods, breaking down problems into sub problems and implementing great Exception Handling

You will learn the basics of Object Oriented Programming - Intefaces, Inheritance, Abstract Class and Constructors

You will learn the important concepts of Object Oriented Programming - Abstraction, Inheritance, Encapsulation and Polymorphism

You will learn to do basic functional programming with Java

You will learn the basics of MultiThreading - with Executor Service

You will learn about a wide variety of Collections - List, Map, Set and Queue Interfaces