Introduction to Back-End Development Weekend Course

What is Java & why it’s great!

Learn core functionality of the Eclipse IDE
Learn the fundamentals of Java (and programming as whole!)
Build several console applications.
Learn basic programming vocabulary

Class will run both Saturday and Sunday from 9:00am – 5:00pm

Core Eclipse functionality

• Selecting a workspace


• Creating a class


• Creating the main method


• Running a Java application

Java overview

• What is Java


• Why is Java everywhere?


• Why is it still around?

Classes & Methods

• What are they? (syntax, variables, methods)


• Parts of a class


• Parts of a method

Conditionals

• Relational Operators


• If & switch statements

Boolean logic

Arrays

• Being able to use array lists to store variables in loops

Loops

• Being able to define a while, for and a do while loop.


• Being able to use a while, for and do while loop

Methods:

• Being able to define what a method is.


• Being able to define the 4 different method access modifiers.


• Introduce students to the concept of single responsibility programming


• Passing parameters into methods


• Being able to define static vs void methods.