From the course: Oracle Java Foundations

Java basics overview - Java Tutorial

From the course: Oracle Java Foundations

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Java basics overview

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(light music) - [Joe] Introduction. This learning path is designed for beginners, novices, and those students beginning their study to become an Oracle Certified Professional. Now, beginners should have basic mathematical, logical, and analytical problem solving skills. And novice programmers are those who've maybe programmed a little bit and want to start it at an introductory level. For students who are starting their path to become an Oracle Certified Professional, this Java Basics course feeds into the Java Standard Edition 11 Programming Complete course, which covers all the topics necessary for certification, and is part of the Java Learning subscription and the Java Standard Edition learning path. In this course, you'll be exposed to basic programming concepts. Things like loops and variables and arrays and if statements and decision making. And you'll also be exposed to how this is implemented in the Java programming language. And you'll learn about classes and objects. The format for the course includes both lecture, a student guide and presentations, recorded presentations like this, and exercises that you perform inside of the lab environment, and quizzes to test your knowledge. At the end of the course, there is a case study where you can actually experience more hands-on learning working with Java code and programming at a larger scale. The course environment is hosted on an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VM Compute Instance. If you don't have one, you'll arrange to get a free trial account in order to run the course. With that OCI account, you'll provision a compute instance, and that instance will already have JDK, the Java Development Kit, installed. You'll then install NetBeans and use that to do your lab exercises. It's actually fairly straightforward to do this, and we take you through this with detailed instructions in a video. So, what do you do when you want to learn more after this course? Well, the next course after this is the Java Standard Edition 11 Programming Complete course, which is a much more comprehensive course. It's been designed for experienced programmers. You, having gone through the Java Basics course, will have gained some experience and can take the Java SE 11 course. This is for those who want to learn the full Java programming language, all the different constructs, work with collections, concurrency, work with IO, classes and objects, and utilize the core language APIs and modularization. It is designed for those with an existing knowledge of computing. Also, those who need to learn all the aspects of Java SE. Students practice those skills in each lesson, and it's based on the current long-term support version of Java Standard Edition 11. After you complete this course, you're well on your way toward attempting your Java 11 certification. In addition to this course, however, we do recommend additional study and coding to prepare for the exam. Now, also to learn more about Java, you can use the Java API documentation. The API documentation is presented as a set of webpages which lists all the classes and packages and modules in the Java Application Program Interface with a description of what the class does and examples of code. It also lists all the methods, the operations, the fields, the data, all the details for the class. And all the documentation is tightly hyperlinked so you can easily move between classes and facilitate lookup to see how one class relates to another and how they all tie together. The documentation is available at this website. You can also search for it on the web by searching for Java SE 11 Docs API, and that'll get you there as well. So in summary, for this module, what we saw was we reviewed the course objectives and we got an overview of the computer environment that'll be used in this course.

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