Java Programming / Java Coding for COMPLETE BEGINNERS ONLY

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Starting On The Right Virtual Foot

Lecture 1: Installing Java

Lecture 2: Installing Eclipse and Coding Your First Program!

Lecture 3: What is Java?

Chapter 2: Fundamental Concepts

Lecture 1: Variables Concept

Lecture 2: String(ing) together some variables

Lecture 3: ints and doubles

Lecture 4: boolean

Lecture 5: Operators Concept

Lecture 6: Some More Operators

Lecture 7: Conditions

Lecture 8: Conditional Statements – Walk Through

Lecture 9: Syntax and Comments

Lecture 10: Bringing It All Together – Fundamental Concepts

Chapter 3: Methods and Parameters

Lecture 1: Methods Concept

Lecture 2: Methods Walk Through

Lecture 3: Parameter Concept

Lecture 4: Parameters Walk Through

Lecture 5: Methods and Parameters Syntax

Lecture 6: Bringing It All Together – Methods and Parameters

Chapter 4: Conditional Statements – Part 2

Lecture 1: AND Operator

Lecture 2: OR Operator

Lecture 3: Switch – Walk Through

Lecture 4: Bringing It All Together – Conditional Statements Part 2

Chapter 5: Concepts – Exceptions, NULL, initialization

Lecture 1: Initialize

Lecture 2: What is NULL?

Lecture 3: Exceptions

Chapter 6: Arrays and Loops

Lecture 1: What is an Array??

Lecture 2: Array – Walk Through

Lecture 3: What is a loop? (for loop)

Lecture 4: while loop – Walk Through

Lecture 5: Bringing It All Together – Arrays and Loops

Chapter 7: Debugging

Lecture 1: Stepping Through Code and Breakpoints

Lecture 2: Stacktrace and Diagnosing Exceptions

Chapter 8: Sprucing Up Your Eclipse

Lecture 1: Changing Theme and Colors

Lecture 2: Code Formatter

Lecture 3: Using IntelliSense

Chapter 9: Objects and Classes

Lecture 1: Object Oriented Programming

Lecture 2: What is an Object – Walk Through

Lecture 3: Class vs Object

Lecture 4: String Class Methods – Walk Through

Lecture 5: Integer and Double Class Methods – Walk Through

Lecture 6: Math Class – Walk Through

Chapter 10: Object Structure

Lecture 1: Getters, Setters, and Constructor Methods

Lecture 2: Public, Private, and Final

Lecture 3: Using Static

Lecture 4: Method Overloading

Lecture 5: .equals() vs ==

Chapter 11: Java Program Structure

Lecture 1: Java Packages and Imports

Lecture 2: The Days Before Eclipse – How To "Manually" run a Java Program

Lecture 3: BONUS: Creating a Compound Savings Application

Chapter 12: Input/Output

Lecture 1: The Scanner Class

Lecture 2: Building a program with user input (in real-time)

Chapter 13: Enums and ArrayLists

Lecture 1: Enum

Lecture 2: ArrayList

Lecture 3: The "for each" loop

Lecture 4: Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy

Chapter 14: Some Inheritance Concepts

Lecture 1: Polymorphism and Inheritance Concept

Lecture 2: Inheritance – Walk Through

Lecture 3: Polymorphism – Walk Through

Lecture 4: Casting

Lecture 5: Protected Access

Lecture 6: Abstract Classes and Methods

Lecture 7: Interfaces

Chapter 15: Throwing and Handling Exceptions

Lecture 1: Throwing Exceptions

Lecture 2: Handling Exceptions

Chapter 16: Reading and Writing Files

Lecture 1: Reading Files

Lecture 2: Writing to Files

Chapter 17: GUI – Graphical User Interface

Lecture 1: JFrame and JComponents

Lecture 2: Event Handling

Lecture 3: Labels and Text Fields

Lecture 4: Checkboxes, RadioButtons, and ComboBoxes

Chapter 18: Threads

Lecture 1: Thread States and Thread Properties

Lecture 2: Synchronization