Java Programming for Complete Beginners

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: The Java Programming Language
  1. What is Java?
  2. What is a Program?
• Chapter 2: Set up Java and IntelliJ IDEA
  1. Downloading and Installing the JDK
  2. Downloading and Installing an IDE
• Chapter 3: Creating and Exploring a Java Project
  1. Creating a New Project
  2. What Does the Code Do?
  3. A Class Is Like a Recipe
  4. The “Main” class
  5. The “main” Method
  6. Comments
• Chapter 4: Hello, World!
  1. A “Hello, World!” Program
  2. Debugging
  3. Simple Formatting Using Escape Sequences
  4. About Print Statements
  5. The Run Process
  6. Classes and Packages
• Chapter 5: Variables and Data Types
  1. Introduction
  2. Variables in Java
  3. Uninitialised Variables
  4. Variable (Re)assignment
  5. Variable Arithmetic
  6. Space for an int?
  7. Data Types
  8. The Printing Methods are Overloaded
  9. Variable Naming and Rules
  10. Type Casting
  11. Program: Room Dimensions
• Chapter 6: User Input
  1. Introduction
  2. An Interactive Program
  3. Comment-out Code
  4. Reading Lines
  5. An Input Problem
  6. Program: A One-sided Conversation
• Chapter 7: if-then Statements
  1. Introduction
  2. Expressions and Booleans
  3. If-then Statements
  4. You Must Be This Tall
  5. Logical AND, OR, and NOT
  6. Nested if Statements
  7. Variable Scope
  8. Ternary Operator
  9. Switch Statements
  10. Program: Simple Calculator
  11. Program: Guess My Number
• Chapter 8: Loops
  1. The while Loop
  2. An Infinite Loop
  3. A Loop Counter
  4. Counting Numbers
  5. Mid-chapter Exercise
  6. The for Loop
  7. The do-while Loop
  8. break and continue
  9. Roll a Die
  10. Roll the Dice
  11. Program: Higher or Lower
• Chapter 9: Arrays and ArrayLists
  1. Introduction
  2. Array Types
  3. Looping Through Arrays
  4. Now in Reverse
  5. Simple Array Processing
  6. Arrays are Reference Types
  7. Multidimensional Arrays
  8. Foreach Loop
  9. Program: Pop Quiz
  10. Program: Tic-Tac-Toe
  11. The ArrayList
  12. Program: GuestList
• Chapter 10: Methods
  1. Introduction
  2. Two Methods
  3. Class Variables
  4. Passing Data
  5. Returning Data
  6. Recreating Existing Methods
  7. Method Overloading
  8. Program: Hangman
• Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
  1. Introduction
  2. Example: Employee Objects
  3. References and the Object Heap
  4. Primitive and Reference Types
  5. An Array of Objects
  6. Practical Use of Class Employee
• TBD