Java for Absolute Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: First Steps

Lecture 1: Downloading and installing IntelliJ IDEA

Lecture 2: Creating a new Java project

Chapter 2: Introduction to Java Code

Lecture 1: A Java program is like a recipe

Lecture 2: A recipe's method and Java methods

Lecture 3: The structure of a basic program

Chapter 3: HelloWorld: Writing Our First Program

Lecture 1: Displaying a message on the screen

Lecture 2: Formatting text using escape sequences

Lecture 3: A glimpse into methods and System.out.println()

Lecture 4: Using packages to organise our classes

Lecture 5: Coding Challenge 1 – HelloWorld

Chapter 4: Variables

Lecture 1: Introduction to variables

Lecture 2: The int and double data types

Lecture 3: Variable manipulation and integer division

Lecture 4: The char, boolean, and String data types

Lecture 5: Variable naming rules and best practices

Lecture 6: Type casting

Chapter 5: User Input

Lecture 1: Reading input using the Scanner

Lecture 2: Writing a question and answer program

Lecture 3: The System.out.format() method

Lecture 4: Applying System.out.format()

Lecture 5: Tokens and the nextLine() method

Lecture 6: Coding Challenge 2 – User Input

Chapter 6: Conditional Statements

Lecture 1: Introduction to if-statements

Lecture 2: If, else-if, and else blocks

Lecture 3: Complex conditions with logical operators

Lecture 4: Checking String equality

Lecture 5: Nesting if-statements

Lecture 6: Lexical scope

Lecture 7: The switch statement

Lecture 8: Coding Challenge 3 – If-then Statements

Chapter 7: Loops

Lecture 1: The while loop

Lecture 2: The for loop

Lecture 3: Break and continue

Lecture 4: The do-while loop

Lecture 5: The modulo operator

Lecture 6: Coding Challenge 4 – Loops

Chapter 8: Arrays

Lecture 1: Introduction to arrays

Lecture 2: Adaptive iteration

Lecture 3: Simple processing using arrays

Lecture 4: Sizes, types, and fortune tellers

Lecture 5: Inputting data and generating a statistic

Lecture 6: Foreach loop

Lecture 7: Coding Challenge 5 – Arrays

Chapter 9: Methods (Functions)

Lecture 1: Introduction to methods

Lecture 2: Passing data to methods

Lecture 3: Returning data from methods

Lecture 4: Passing and returning data

Lecture 5: References (part 1)

Lecture 6: References (part 2)

Lecture 7: Class/Static members

Chapter 10: Java Fundamentals Wrap Up

Lecture 1: Program walkthrough: Tic-Tac-Toe

Lecture 2: Program walkthrough: Prime Numbers

Lecture 3: Coding Challenge 6 – End of Section Challenges

Chapter 11: Practical: A Simple Guest List Program

Lecture 1: Creating the menu and displaying the guest list

Lecture 2: Adding guests

Lecture 3: Deleting guests (part 1)

Lecture 4: Deleting guests (part 2)

Lecture 5: The full code

Lecture 6: Exercise 1

Lecture 7: Solution: Exercise 1

Lecture 8: Exercise 2

Lecture 9: Solution: Exercise 2

Lecture 10: Exercise 3

Lecture 11: Solution: Exercise 3

Lecture 12: Exercise 4

Lecture 13: Solution: Exercise 4

Lecture 14: Exercise 5

Lecture 15: Solution: Exercise 5

Lecture 16: Exercise 6

Lecture 17: Solution: Exercise 6

Lecture 18: Exercise 7

Lecture 19: Solution: Exercise 7

Lecture 20: Exercise 8

Lecture 21: Solution: Exercise 8

Lecture 22: Exercise 9

Lecture 23: Solution: Exercise 9

Lecture 24: Exercise 10

Lecture 25: Solution: Exercise 10

Lecture 26: Exercise 11

Lecture 27: Solution: Exercise 11

Lecture 28: Exercise 12

Lecture 29: Solution: Exercise 12

Lecture 30: Exercise 13

Lecture 31: Solution: Exercise 13

Lecture 32: Exercise 14

Lecture 33: Solution: Exercise 14

Lecture 34: Exercise 15

Lecture 35: Solution: Exercise 15

Lecture 36: Exercise 16