Core Java for complete beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Why Java

Lecture 3: Java timeline

Chapter 2: Installation and setup

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Which Java to use

Lecture 3: Installation on Windows

Lecture 4: Installation on Mac OS

Lecture 5: Eclipse IDE set up

Chapter 3: Java Basics

Lecture 1: Your first java program – do not skip

Lecture 2: Basic Concepts – Understand your first program

Lecture 3: Java Compilation and Platform independence

Lecture 4: Java versus other languages

Chapter 4: Java primitives and variables

Lecture 1: Variables

Lecture 2: Variables – Coding Challenge

Lecture 3: Variables – Coding challenge solution

Lecture 4: Java identifiers

Lecture 5: Primitive datatypes

Lecture 6: Numeric primitive datatype limits

Lecture 7: Datatypes – Coding challenge

Lecture 8: Datatypes – Coding Challenge solution

Chapter 5: Java OOP Part1: Classes and Objects

Lecture 1: Java Classes and Objects

Lecture 2: Java class – hands on

Lecture 3: Java object – hands on

Lecture 4: this and static keywords

Lecture 5: Constructor methods

Lecture 6: Coding Challenge – Classes and Objects

Lecture 7: Coding Challenge Solution – Classes and Objects

Chapter 6: Java Statements and Operators

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Java Statements and expressions

Lecture 3: Java Operators

Lecture 4: Operators – hands on

Chapter 7: Java Flow control

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Decisions – If statement

Lecture 3: Decisions – Switch statement

Lecture 4: Best practices – Switch vs if-else

Lecture 5: Ternary operator

Chapter 8: Java Arrays

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The String datatype

Lecture 3: Command line arguments

Lecture 4: Coding Challenge – command line basic calculator

Lecture 5: Coding Challenge Solution – command line calculator

Chapter 9: Java Loop Construct

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: While loop

Lecture 3: Infinite while loop

Lecture 4: For loop

Lecture 5: Modified for loop – readonly

Lecture 6: Do-While loop

Lecture 7: Coding Challenge – Build a stock trading platform

Lecture 8: Coding Challenge Solution – stock trading platform

Chapter 10: Wrappers and Reference types

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Objects vs Primitives

Lecture 3: Why Wrapper Classes

Lecture 4: Wrapper Classes – hands on

Lecture 5: Boxing and Unboxing

Lecture 6: Wrapper and String class immutability

Lecture 7: Best Practice: StringBuffer instead of String

Lecture 8: Reference variables and wrapping

Chapter 11: Java Object Oriented Programming – Concepts

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Encapsulation

Lecture 3: Inheritance introduction

Lecture 4: Inheritance – hands on

Lecture 5: @Override annotation

Lecture 6: Abstraction

Lecture 7: Java Interfaces

Lecture 8: Interfaces – default methods

Lecture 9: Abstract classes

Lecture 10: Polymorphism

Lecture 11: A note for students

Chapter 12: Java Collections

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: List interface

Lecture 3: ArrayList

Lecture 4: ArrayList – Performance Consideration

Lecture 5: LinkedList

Lecture 6: Arraylist vs Linkedlist

Lecture 7: Coding Challenge – ArrayList vs LinkedList

Lecture 8: Coding Challenge Solution – ArrayList vs LinkedList

Lecture 9: Vector

Lecture 10: Stack

Lecture 11: List – Summary

Lecture 12: Sorting Lists – Comparator vs Comparable

Lecture 13: Set

Lecture 14: HashSet and LinkedHashSet

Lecture 15: TreeSet

Lecture 16: Queue

Lecture 17: Map Interface

Lecture 18: HashMap vs LinkedHashMap vs TreeMap

Lecture 19: Iterating Maps

Lecture 20: Collections – Summary