Java as first programming language

In this course we cover the basics of object-oriented-programming in 'java'. We will write some small but useful command-line tools and build a desktop-application as culmination.

• Chapter 1: Presentation of the Concepts
  • Compiler, Runtime-Environment, Integrated Development Environment, Build-System
  • Classes, Methods, Fields, Types, Enumerations
  • Variables, Literals, Constants, Arrays, Collections
  • Operators, Calling Methods, simple Output
• Chapter 2: Control structures
  • branching (if ... else & switch)
  • loops (for, while, do ... while)
• Chapter 3: Access-Modifier
  • public, protected, package private, private for classes and methods
  • final for classes, methods and fields
• Chapter 4: Introduction to the bootstrap-library
  • Input/Output with Streams
  • Random Numbers
  • Date and Time
  • Cryptography
• Chapter 5: Interfaces
  • Simple Interfaces and Serializable
  • @FunctionalInterface and Lambda-Expressions
  • Streaming-API
• Chapter 6: External Resources
  • External library: search , find, link
  • Executable JARs
  • Creating and linking custom libraries

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