Beginner Professional Java – Learn to Code for Work and Fun

Beginner Professional Java – Learn to Code for Work and Fun, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 157 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 298 reviews, and has 1758 subscribers.

You will learn about Become a coder! Plan and write text console applications using core Java language programming Use efficient debugging techniques for finding and solving problems in your programs Be ready to learn other code libraries, make sense of their documentation, and integrate them with your program (including game mod systems and others). Be able to make a learning plan for yourself. Apply study techniques learned during this course to ease your process of learning other new technologies and programming languages Choose which areas of software development you may want to study next and know how to begin Know enough coding to teach a junior high or high school computer science course beyond Scratch. This course is ideal for individuals who are You are a complete beginner to programming, and want a course with a gentle learning curve that helps you solidly learn and apply the basics. or You want to start a journey towards a career in coding. You will find this a welcoming and supportive place to start. or You are a teacher who wants to teach computer science at a junior high to high school level. Go through the course to learn for yourself, and then check Udemy's institutional offerings for class enrollment. It is particularly useful for You are a complete beginner to programming, and want a course with a gentle learning curve that helps you solidly learn and apply the basics. or You want to start a journey towards a career in coding. You will find this a welcoming and supportive place to start. or You are a teacher who wants to teach computer science at a junior high to high school level. Go through the course to learn for yourself, and then check Udemy's institutional offerings for class enrollment.

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Summary

Title: Beginner Professional Java – Learn to Code for Work and Fun

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 157

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 157

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 160

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 160

Original Price: $22.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Become a coder! Plan and write text console applications using core Java language programming
Use efficient debugging techniques for finding and solving problems in your programs
Be ready to learn other code libraries, make sense of their documentation, and integrate them with your program (including game mod systems and others). Be able to make a learning plan for yourself.
Apply study techniques learned during this course to ease your process of learning other new technologies and programming languages
Choose which areas of software development you may want to study next and know how to begin
Know enough coding to teach a junior high or high school computer science course beyond Scratch.

Who Should Attend

You are a complete beginner to programming, and want a course with a gentle learning curve that helps you solidly learn and apply the basics.
You want to start a journey towards a career in coding. You will find this a welcoming and supportive place to start.
You are a teacher who wants to teach computer science at a junior high to high school level. Go through the course to learn for yourself, and then check Udemy's institutional offerings for class enrollment.

Target Audiences

You are a complete beginner to programming, and want a course with a gentle learning curve that helps you solidly learn and apply the basics.
You want to start a journey towards a career in coding. You will find this a welcoming and supportive place to start.
You are a teacher who wants to teach computer science at a junior high to high school level. Go through the course to learn for yourself, and then check Udemy's institutional offerings for class enrollment.

Great Introduction to Coding

This course teaches programming for absolute beginners. It provides over 50 hands-on coding exercises, so you spend most of your time getting good at coding, not just watching videos. The difficulty builds gradually so you’re always ready for the next step.

Most people can complete this course in about 6 months at 5 hours per week.

Refined in a Classroom
This course material has been used for 3 years in a face-to-face classroom for job training. This has resulted in many refinements to the course material, eliminating bugs and errors, and ensuring no steps are missing, so you can trust the quality of the course.

Many of the classroom students are now working in professional software development, and have had wonderful things to say about this course. “It’s hard, but in a good way, and everything is explained well; I don’t get lost.”

Native English Speaker

All voice-over is done by me (your instructor), and I’m a native English speaker from the midwest of the United States; I speak clearly and carefully. I also provide full text transcripts of all videos, and am working on closed captioning, so that you can easily follow along with what I’m saying.

Videos are Easy to Review

The course assumes basic computer literacy but no prior programming experience. We’ll start out simple and carefully explain every step.

I explain new vocabulary every step of the way so you don’t get lost, and I make sure the topics don’t skip around. Each topic gently prepares you for the next topic in the course. I focus on the core Java language, especially the most important areas you would actually use on the job.

I use lots of pictures, code examples with arrows pointing out the important parts, and careful demonstrations of how and why things work.

Every video starts with an overview slide, so you can quickly review code examples when you come back to it later. Then we go into the details, and summarize at the end with some journal questions for you to remember, apply, and elaborate on the material you’ve just learned.

Hands-on Practice

The early part of the course emphasizes hands-on practice and repetition to build a strong memory of the material. Then as we introduce more complex topics, it shifts to software design and strategies for problem solving, so you’re ready for the next level.

Practice assignments use what you just learned, in a simple exercise. Challenge assignments use the same topics, but in a more interesting and complex way. Freestyle assignments give you a few requirements and then encourage you to get creative, building your own ideas. I found that learners who only do class exercises don’t get enough practice at creating their own ideas, which holds them back professionally. Freestyle exercises give you that necessary practice and are also great fun!

Good for Teachers

This material is well-suited to teaching computer science in junior high and high schools, as a more advanced approach than using Scratch. Teachers with advanced students will find this useful for both themselves and their students.

Acknowledgements

Most graphics were licensed through PresenterMedia (obligatory attribution) – many thanks to them for providing such great concept graphics with the ability to customize colors and text. The colorful slides and memorable pictures make learning coding a lot more fun.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Preparation and Setup

Lecture 1: Welcome and Course Goals

Lecture 2: What is Programming?

Lecture 3: Install BlueJ with the Combined Installer

Lecture 4: Using BlueJ

Lecture 5: Typing {} [] / ' and " – and some Notes on Touch Typing

Lecture 6: Using BlueJ's Debugger Tool

Lecture 7: Practice: Creating and Running Programs (Assignment 1)

Lecture 8: What did I just type in? Concepts and Vocabulary for Source Code

Lecture 9: Troubleshooting Your Typing (Printable Guide)

Chapter 2: Text, Numbers, and Interaction

Lecture 1: Practice: Story Time

Lecture 2: Practice: A Poem

Lecture 3: Learning Strategies

Lecture 4: Ask Questions and Fill in the Blank – Input and Variables

Lecture 5: Numbers vs Text: Planning Variables and Data Types

Lecture 6: Scanner, Keyboard Input, and Skipping the Newline Character

Lecture 7: Practice: Grocery List (Download Requirements PDF)

Lecture 8: Challenge: Treasure Chest

Lecture 9: How to Experiment with Code

Lecture 10: Casting in More Depth

Lecture 11: Freestyle: Questions and Answers

Chapter 3: Decision Making and Program Flow

Lecture 1: This Path or That One? Part 1: Comparisons

Lecture 2: This Path or That One? Part 2: If Statements

Lecture 3: Practice: Sandwich Shop

Lecture 4: Indenting Code Properly

Lecture 5: Comparisons with Strings

Lecture 6: Practice: Entertainment Suggestions

Lecture 7: A Special Message

Lecture 8: Flowcharts – Software Planning Diagrams

Lecture 9: Iterative Design with Flowcharts and Pseudo-code

Lecture 10: Practice: Decisions, Flowcharts, and Pseudo-Code, Oh my! Cat and Mouse

Lecture 11: Boolean Combinations

Lecture 12: Demos, Collaboration, and Self-Evaluation Checklists

Lecture 13: Freestyle: Interactive Story

Lecture 14: Self-Evaluation Checklist: Variables, Conditions, If, Input/Output

Chapter 4: Introducing Methods

Lecture 1: Defining and Calling a Method or Function

Lecture 2: Practice: Verse and Chorus with Methods

Lecture 3: Method Input Parameters

Lecture 4: Method Return Values (many sample code downloads)

Lecture 5: Practice: Calculator Methods

Lecture 6: Practice: Count to Ten in English and Spanish

Lecture 7: Challenge: Pretty Dates

Lecture 8: Practice: Many Methods

Lecture 9: Method Signatures

Lecture 10: Challenge: Leap Years and Test-First Development

Lecture 11: Freestyle: Function Junction

Chapter 5: Running in Circles: Loops and Repetition

Lecture 1: While Loops: Keep Going Until Done

Lecture 2: Practice with While: Are We There Yet?

Lecture 3: Examining the Sections of a Loop

Lecture 4: Practice with While: Adding Machine

Lecture 5: Practice with While: Thank You Letter, Mail Merge

Lecture 6: Practice: Count to 30

Lecture 7: Practice: Count to 100 by 5's

Lecture 8: Do-while Loops: Do it at least once

Lecture 9: Practice with Do-While: Validating Inputs

Lecture 10: A Roll of the Virtual Dice: Random Numbers

Lecture 11: Practice: Guess My Number

Lecture 12: Counting Made Easier: For Loops

Lecture 13: Practice with For Loops 1

Lecture 14: Practice with For Loops 2

Lecture 15: Nested Loops

Lecture 16: Practice: Print the Multiplication Tables

Lecture 17: Challenge: Multiplication Tables Grid

Lecture 18: Challenge: Color Patterns

Lecture 19: Freestyle: Loops

Lecture 20: On Independent Learning

Chapter 6: Arrays, Characters, and Text Manipulation

Lecture 1: Arrays

Lecture 2: Practice: Number Arrays

Lecture 3: ASCII and Other Character Encodings

Lecture 4: Practice: Print the Ascii Chart

Lecture 5: Practice: Letters to Numbers, Numbers to Letters

Lecture 6: Practice: Lower to Upper

Lecture 7: Bits, Bytes, and Binary: Part 1

Lecture 8: Binary Arithmetic: Part 2

Lecture 9: Hexadecimal Numbers

Lecture 10: Practice: Hidden Message

Lecture 11: Clearing the Screen in BlueJ from Code

Lecture 12: Multi-Dimensional Arrays

Lecture 13: Practice: Temperatures

Lecture 14: Freestyle: Data and Logic

Lecture 15: Capstone Challenge: Tic Tac Toe

Chapter 7: Object-Oriented Coding: Classes and Methods

Lecture 1: Roadmap to the Next Phase of Learning: Code Structure and Organization

Lecture 2: Object-Oriented Concepts: What is a Class

Lecture 3: Object-Oriented Concepts: Variable Scope and Shadowing

Lecture 4: Object-Oriented Concepts: Public/Private and Get/Set Methods

Lecture 5: Object-Oriented Concepts: Static vs Instance

Lecture 6: Object-Oriented Concepts: Static Code Syntax

Lecture 7: From Requirements to Classes: Ice Cream Shop Part 1/2

Lecture 8: From Requirements to Classes: Ice Cream Shop Part 2/2

Lecture 9: Using BlueJ's Object-Oriented Practice Tools

Lecture 10: Null Pointer Exceptions and Arrays of Classes

Instructors

Jenny Brown
Professional Software Engineer and Coding Mentor (22 yrs)

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 9 votes
2 stars: 8 votes
3 stars: 19 votes
4 stars: 84 votes
5 stars: 178 votes

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