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Description
Java is undoubtedly one of the most important programming languages out there, and learning it doesn't have to be a chore. This course will have you up to speed in no time, covering programming basics applicable to all languages, Java fundamentals, and much more.- Master the fundamentals of Java in 88 lectures & 9 hours of content
- Understand the principles of object-oriented programing
- Utilize conditional tests & operators, arrays & collections, loops, etc.
- Delve into advanced topics: enumerated types, interfaces & scope
- Use generics & exceptions to detect bugs & handle errors
- Handle files & serialize objects
Huw Collingbourne runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics. He is also the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, a company which makes tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years and is a well-known technology writer in the UK, having written numerous opinion and programming columns for publications such as Computer Shopper and Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. For more details on the course and instructor, click here.
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Details & Requirements
- Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
- Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
- Certification of completion not included
- Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
- Experience level required: all levels
Compatibility
- Internet required
Terms
- Unredeemed licenses can be returned for store credit within 30 days of purchase. Once your license is redeemed, all sales are final.
Course Outline
- Getting Started
- Welcome to this course
- Install Java and NetBeans
- What is Java?
- Source Code Archive
- The Little Book Of Java
- Quiz Questions - self-assessment (download)
- Quiz Answers (download)
- How to use the demo projects in NetBeans
- First Steps in Java
- A first program – Hello world
- Making sense of Java code
- How to open a command prompt in Windows and the Mac
- How to pass arguments to a program
- How to create visual applications
- Compiling Java programs – from source code to bytecode
- Printing text at the system prompt
- Displaying text in visual controls
- The Fundamentals of Java Programming
- Data Types and Variables
- Constants
- Design and program a calculator in NetBeans
- Packages and imports
- Type conversion
- Primitives and wrappers
- Type casts
- Numeric literals
- Automatic string conversions
- Autoboxing and unboxing
- Strings
- Object Orientation
- What is Object Orientation?
- Classes and objects
- Class hierarchies
- How to create a subclass
- Methods
- Static methods and variables
- Conditional Tests and Operators
- Operators
- Arithmetic operators
- String equality
- String equality – exceptions to the rule!
- if..else tests
- switch..case
- Logical operators and Booleans
- Compound assignment operators
- Unary addition and subtraction operators
- Arrays and Collections
- Arrays
- Zero-based arrays
- Initializing arrays
- for loops
- Garbage collection
- ArrayLists
- Interfaces
- Generics
- Maps
- Type-safe HashMaps
- Loops
- for loops revisited
- Enhanced for statements
- while
- while loop to read text file
- do..while
- Multidimensional arrays
- Iterating over multidimensional arrays
- break
- continue
- Disadvantages of break and continue
- Breaking out of a nested for loop
- Labelled break
- Enumerated types, interfaces and scope
- Enums
- Enums and static constants
- The Enum class
- Debugging code
- Interfaces
- A custom interface
- Scope
- Local variables
- Access modifiers
- Generics and Exceptions
- Introducing Generics
- Strongly-typed lists
- Generic type parameters
- Generic classes
- Generic collections
- Overriding methods
- Overloading methods
- Exceptions
- Catching exceptions
- Exception types
- Files and Serialization
- File-handling
- Random access files
- Streams
- Serialization
- Saving serialized objects to disk
- Restoring serialized objects from disk
- And finally...
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Lifetime
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9 Hours