Java Programming for Beginners

This course is for anyone wanting to begin learning the Java language, whether you're a student, casual learner, or existing programmer looking to add a new language to your skillset. No previous experience of Java or programming in general is required.

 1. Getting Started with Java

• What is Java?
• Features of Java
• Java applications
• Setting up your development environment
• Installing JDK
• Installing the NetBeans IDE
• Writing our first Java program
• Creating a new project
• Creating a Java class
• Writing the code
• Java comments
• The main() function
• Printing a string
• Java syntax
• Executing our program
• How to interpret errors detected by NetBeans?
• The code completion feature

2. Understanding Typed Variables

• Integer variables
• The solution of variables
• Memory allocation for integer variables
• Floating point variables
• Behavior difference between integer and float data types
• Type casting
• The double data type
• The Math class library
• Using the pow() function
• Importing class libraries
• Char variables
• Strings
• The concatenation operator
• The toUpperCase() function
• The replace() function
• Escape sequences

3. Branching

• Understanding if statements
• Conditional statements
• Using if statements
• Using else statements
• Complex conditionals
• The contains function
• Complex conditional statements
• The boolean variable
• Switch, case, and break
• Program using switch, case, and break
• While and do...while loops
• While loops
• The do...while loops
• For loops

4. Data Structures

• Working with arrays
• Declaring and initializing an array
• Assigning values to an array
• Array example in NetBeans
• Creating an array
• Creating a for loop
• Printing the alphabet
• Default initialization of arrays in Java
• Multidimensional arrays
• A multidimensional array example in NetBeans
• Creating a multidimensional array
• Using nested loops for multidimensional arrays
• Assigning different colors to our chessboard
• Printing the chessboard
• ArrayLists
• An ArrayList example in NetBeans
• Creating an ArrayList
• Getting user input
• Printing the ArrayList of user input
• Giving control to the user
• Analyzing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
• Maps
• Creating a Map
• Assigning values to our Map
• Fetching information from our Map

5. Functions

• The basics of Java functions
• Methods
• Temperature conversion program
• Setting up the control flow
• Exploring separate cases - C, K, and F
• Celsius type
• Kelvin type
• Fahrenheit type
• Executing the first part of the program
• Executing the second part of the program
• Final touch to the program
• Advanced Java functions
• Operating java variables
• Using variables in the program
• Understanding passing parameters

6. Modeling With Object-Oriented Java

• Creating classes and objects
• Creating custom classes
• Creating member variables
• Creating member functions
• Creating constructors
• Types of constructors

7. More Object-Oriented Java

• Inheritance
• Creating a superclass
• The is-a relationship
• Overriding
• Data structure
• The abstract method  
• The protected method           
• Abstract

8. Useful Java Classes

• The Calendar class
• Subclasses of Calendar
• Fetching the current day, month, and year
• How Calendar works
• String functionality
• String literals versus String objects
• String functions
• The replace() function
• The format() function
• Exceptions
• Analyzing the console exception messages
• Handling exceptions
• The try and catch blocks
• The finally block
• The Object class
• Overriding the equals() method
• Other Object methods
• Primitive classes

9. File Input And Output

• Writing data to files
• The FileWriter class
• Relieving resources using the close() method
• The BufferedWriter class
• Reading data from files
• The FileReader and BufferedReader class
• The Serializable class
• Serializing an object
• Deserializing an object

10. Basic GUI Development

• Swing GUIs
• The JFrame class
• Setting the size of our window
• Adding a label
• Closing our application
• The SwingUtilities class
• A visual GUI editor tool – palette
• How palette works
• Event handling
• Adding a button
• Adding functionality to our button

11. XML

• Reading XML data
• Parsing XML data
• Accessing Jane's XML element
• Printing Jane's car details
• Writing XML data
• Java code to write XML data
• Modifying XML data