Programming101-Java

Course materials & problems for HackBulgaria's Programming 101 with Java. Starting November 2015.

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Course Program

This is a detailed program about the course, separated in weeks

Week 1

Installing Linux
Introducing Java with syntax, types & language constructs
Problem solving & debugging using Java

Week 2

Introducing shell & basic Linux commands
Working with Java command-line tools - java, javac, jar
Introducing git and GitHub

Week 3

Introducing Java OOP concepts & solving OOP problems.
- Classes, methods, attributes, constructors, scope modifiers, static stuff, etc.

Week 4

Introducing Generic Types
Introducing Java Collections & data structures in Java
Solving problems with different data structures.

Week 5

Second take on Java OOP concepts
- Interfaces
- Inheritence & Abstract Classes
- Polymorhism

Week 6

Third take on Java OOP concepts
- Implementing multiple interfaces
- Nested & Anonymous classes.
- Java OOP quirks

Week 7

Introducing IO in Java - Files & Streams
Dealing with exceptions in Java

Week 8

Introducing Test Driven Development with jUnit
Introducing review process in software development
Working with tools like checkstyle and PMD

Week 9

Introducing Threads in Java
Working with Java concurrency.
Blowing our minds.

Week 10

Looking at the bigger picture - objected oriented design
Desining larger systems & making bigger software projects using everything we know up to now.

Week 11

Introducing databases - SQL, JDBC

Week 12

Introducing Maven
Working with 3rd party libraries, like Apache HTTP Client

Week 13

Working with annotations & reflections
Introducing the concept for ORM with Hibernate

Week 14

Java 8 & Functional programming in Java
Working with Servlets & Tomcat
How to distribute software? Deployment process with Maven / Ant / Gradle.

Week 15 - Week 16

Introducing and working with Spring