Interactive Java workbook (FREE - The Book with demo tasks starter kit)
Interactive Java workbook
Companion book to the Interactive Java workbook task collection
About the Book
This workbook covers the basics of object-oriented programming in the Java programming language. The
assumption is that the user knows nothing about programming and starts "from scratch."
It consists of a free companion book (in PDF or EPUB formats) but, more importantly, a multi-volume collection of tasks which are provided as ZIP files (extras) containing complete courses for the IntelliJ Academy plugin.
Programming is one of those skills that is best learned through practice. That’s why you often hear and read:
"Programming is learned through programming."
No one has learned to program simply by reading books or watching tutorials. Theory is essential, but it’s necessary to "roll up your sleeves" and program what you're learning. This means: creating your own program, doing a large number of examples, trying different solution variants, analyzing and improving other people's programs, etc.
This is exactly the motivation behind writing this workbook. There are numerous online courses, textbooks, tutorials, and educational software that contain important lessons about programming. However, there are very few interactive task collections that allow you to solidify that knowledge through concrete programming examples and diverse tasks.
Unfortunately, most of the available task collections are part of online courses, meaning that you cannot practice programming in a real-world software development environment, but through a web-browser and online-based environments with very limited features. That's why this workbook is provided as an addition of the IDEA IntelliJ enterprise-grade software development environment (actually, its Academy plugin), so one can get used to working in such a setting where all the features and tools available to a professional programmer are present.
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Packages
FREE - The Book with demo tasks starter kit
Contains: - The FULL version of the Interactive Java workbook (PDF and EPUB) - About 100 DEMO tasks with for the IntelliJ Academy plugin covering the first several lessons (see book extras, ZIP file "Interactive Java Workbook 1.zip"). - Solution explanation videos for these demo tasks are available free of charge via Ko-fi. If you like the book and the tasks, please consider buying the full version with all tasks.
Includes:
Interactive Java workbook part 1 tasks
This file contains tasks for the Interactive Java Workbook, designed as a course for the IntelliJ Academy plug-in and should be loaded directly into IntelliJ. The topics covered in part 1 (6 theory lessons + 102 tasks): - Introduction to Java - Class - Attribute - Objects, program execution and output to the screen Solution explanation videos are sold separately, but are available free of charge for the tasks in this part 1. They are available by subscribing to membership tiers on Ko-fi (please see the Video explanations tier).
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EPUB
WEB
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The Book with full set of tasks for IntelliJ Academy
Contains: - The FULL version of the Interactive Java workbook (PDF and EPUB) - ALL 378+ tasks for the IntelliJ Academy plugin (see book extras, ZIP files inside). Solution explanation videos are sold separately via monthly memberships on Ko-fi.
Includes:
Interactive Java workbook part 1 tasks
This file contains tasks for the Interactive Java Workbook, designed as a course for the IntelliJ Academy plug-in and should be loaded directly into IntelliJ. The topics covered in part 1 (6 theory lessons + 102 tasks): - Introduction to Java - Class - Attribute - Objects, program execution and output to the screen Solution explanation videos are sold separately, but are available free of charge for the tasks in this part 1. They are available by subscribing to membership tiers on Ko-fi (please see the Video explanations tier).
Interactive Java workbook part 2 tasks
This file contains tasks for the Interactive Java Workbook, designed as a course for the IntelliJ Academy plug-in and should be loaded directly into IntelliJ. The topics covered in part 2 (10 theory lessons + 109 tasks) - Methods and arithmetic operators - Constructor - Global variables and methods - Constants - Relationships - Enumerated type Solution explanation videos are sold separately. They are available by subscribing to membership tiers on Ko-fi (please see the Video explanations tier).
Interactive Java workbook part 3 tasks
This file contains tasks for the Interactive Java Workbook, designed as a course for the IntelliJ Academy plug-in and should be loaded directly into IntelliJ. The topics covered in part 3 (8 theory lessons + 167 tasks) - Algorithms and control statements (introduction) - The if statement - The switch statement - The for statement - The while statement - The do-while statement Solution explanation videos are sold separately. They are available by subscribing to membership tiers on Ko-fi (please see the Video explanations tier).
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EPUB
WEB
English
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What is a class?
- What are attributes
- Objects, program execution and printing on the screen
- What’s next?
- Methods
- Arithmetic operators
- Variable scope
- Method overloading
- Parameter passing
- Constructor
- Global variables and methods (static)
- Constants (final)
- Relationships
- Enumerated type (enum)
- Algorhitms and algorithmic structures - introduction
- Overview of control (flow) statements in Java
- The if statement
- The switch statement
- The for statement (loop)
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The while statement (loop)
- Lesson content
- What is the while statement - declaration and elements
- Nesting statements within a while loop
- The break, return, and continue statements
- Alternative writing of the while loop
- Infinite while loop
- Un-executable while Loop
- When to use a while loop and when to use a for loop, alternative writing of the while loop as a for loop and vice versa
- Most common errors
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The do-while statement (loop)
- Lesson content
- What is the do-while statement - declaration and elements
- Nesting statements within the do-while loop
- The break, return, and continue statements
- Alternative writing of the do-while Loop
- Infinite do-while loop
- Un-executable do-while loop
- When to use for and while loops vs. do-while loop, alternative writing of one type of loop using another
- Most common errors
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