Would you like to just acquire core Java skills or would you like to become a complete and a professional Java engineer right at the end of the course. If it is latter, then you should read on ...
This comprehensive project-based course has been designed with following objectives:
- To help you get an in-depth understanding of both core & advanced concepts in Java
- To teach best practices & key design principles for writing effective Java programs
- To help you gain practical experience in writing professional-level code via instructor-led implementation of a project. Project is implemented in Eclipse using MVC design pattern, TDD (Test-Driven Development) principles and other best practices
- To help you understand the inner workings of Java platform (aka JVM)
- To teach how to effectively use Eclipse IDE to write, debug, and test Java programs
The motivation behind these objectives is to help you in becoming a complete & industry-ready engineer. Most Java courses focus only on teaching core fundamentals, which at the very best equip students with good basic skills to work on small-to-medium sized projects. Most of these students fall short when it comes to implementing more complex projects. To design elegant solutions for large, complex projects one needs to have a much deeper understanding of language features along with knowledge of the recommended best practices & design principles. More importantly one needs to know how to put all of these into practice. This comprehensive one-stop project-based course has been designed to equip students with these skills.
Course Specifics
This course begins by giving a birds-eye view of Java covering everything from origin of Java to installing Java and writing your first Java program. Even the most fundamental concepts like compilation & interpretation are explained. All other topics are covered in-depth starting from language basics, object-oriented concepts (including relevant Java 8 features), JVM, exceptions, IO, data structures, generics, multi-threading, nested classes, enums, and annotations.
Each lecture has been very carefully crafted. Motivation behind every concept is clearly explained with well thought out examples and nice animations. Object-oriented concepts like inheritance & polymorphism are explained through a real-world case-study, which is also implemented as part of the course project. Every concept has been well-tested through ready-to-run, downloadable demo programs, which are implemented and executed in the course. Every chapter ends with a carefully crafted quiz to test what was learnt.
The course project simulates a real-world product that is based on bookmarking concept. The project is instructor-led and is implemented using proper coding conventions & best practices. The project incorporates MVC design pattern and uses Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology. The entire project is implemented using the popular Eclipse IDE. There is also a separate dedicated chapter just for learning Eclipse IDE. It will give you a solid foundation in using Eclipse to effectively write, debug, and test Java programs. The chapter includes lessons to use Eclipse's debugger & JUnit unit testing framework.
Finally, the course also discusses several best practices/design rules outlined in the popular Effective Java book. This is one of the highlights of the course and will make you truly complete!
About the Instructor & On His Motivation for Building This Course
I have over 10 years of experience in Java developing complex data integration & mining software for start-ups in silicon valley and elsewhere. After working for so many years with many excellent engineers, I realized that sometimes we fell short of developing the most effective solutions to some of the problems we were dealing with. This sometimes led to several rounds of refactoring resulting in loss of valuable time. This made me realize that it was a result of not being taught Java programming in the right way. I realized that a more holistic approach to teaching Java is needed where the language features are taught along with the best practices & design principles that any serious developer must know. This course is a result of this realization and it has taken me around 2 years of full-time effort (considered equivalent to a decade if working on a part-time basis) in developing it. Building this course itself has been a wonderful journey for me and I hope you will also find this course to be equally enriching. I will continue to devote myself in building this course towards making it one of the best Java courses out there. Always, feel free to message me if you have any questions and I promise to address them as quickly as I can.
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