Learn Java from Scratch - A Beginner's Guide

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eText | 27 February 2019 | Edition Number 1

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Start your Java journey with this comprehensive beginner's course. Learn Java syntax, tools, OOP concepts, and modern features with hands-on challenges and real-world projects.

Key Features

Comprehensive introduction to Java programming for beginners
Guidance on exception handling, threading, and memory management
Exploration of modern Java features from versions 10 to 24

Book Description

This beginner-friendly course offers a structured and immersive path to mastering Java from the ground up. It begins with setting up Java across Windows, macOS, and Linux, then transitions to hands-on coding using JShell. Learners tackle real-world challenges like building multiplication tables to understand Java expressions, variables, and console output. With over 300 lessons, the course deeply explores loops, conditionals, methods, and object-oriented principles including classes, encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction, and polymorphism. As learners gain confidence, they move to Eclipse IDE to build structured Java projects. Core programming skills are reinforced through interactive exercises, puzzles, debug tips, and review checkpoints. The course covers primitive and reference types, arrays, ArrayLists, wrapper classes, exception handling, file operations, multi-threading, and concurrency tools. Advanced modules include Java Collections, Generics, Functional Programming with streams, lambda expressions, and method references. The course also explores modern Java features from versions 10 through 24, and introduces Spring Framework, Spring Boot, JPA, and REST API development. Extensive interview prep guides and real-world scenarios ensure learners are job-ready and confident in using Java professionally.

What you will learn

Install and configure Java and Eclipse across platforms
Write Java code using JShell and Eclipse
Apply core programming constructs: loops, conditionals, variables
Develop Java classes and methods effectively
Understand and implement OOP principles
Work with collections, generics, and functional programming

Who this book is for

This course is ideal for beginners with no prior programming experience. A basic understanding of computer operations is helpful but not required. It's also suited for professionals from other tech domains seeking a structured introduction to Java.