Course Overview
This course is designed for beginners who wish to become a software developer by
using Java, which is one of the most popular programming languages for web, desktop
and mobile application development. It is a classroom-based course that covers the
essential topics to start programming with Java.
Skills Required
No existing knowledge on Java is required. Familiarity with any programming language is helpful but not required. You should have basic computing knowledge.
- NetBeans IDE
- Installing the NetBeans IDE
- Introduction to NetBeans
- Understanding of project explorer
- Overview of Java
- The three Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles
- First Java program
- Closer look at the first program
- Lexical Issues and Java keywords
- Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
- Primitive types
- Characters
- Boolean
- Working with variables and its scope
- Type conversion and casting
- Introduction to String class
- Working with arrays
- Operators and Expressions
- Introduction of operators
- Arithmetic operators
- Relational operators
- Assignment operator
- Logical operators
- Increment and decrement operators
- More in operators
- Decision Making
- If statement
- If…else statement
- If…else if…else statement
- Nested if…else
- Switch Statements
- Using Loops
- Introduction of looping
- The while loop
- The do-while loop
- The for loop
- The enhanced for loop
- Jump statements : break, continue
- The return statement
- Nesting loops
- Using the for-each loop with Arrays