Getting Started with Java: The Fundamentals of Java Programming

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Course Overview
  2m 30s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about your instructor and this course. In the course, you’ll learn some of the significant features of Java. Java is a class-based object-oriented language that’s platform-independent. You’ll also learn about the Java ecosystem and the phases involved to translate Java code into a form that can be executed by a machine. This includes concepts like compilers, Java Bytecode, and the Java Virtual Machine. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  How Java Works
  9m 48s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about the Java programming language. You’ll learn the mechanics involved in writing a Java program and then getting it to run on a machine. A programming language provides you with the means to write a set of instructions in order to carry out a task. A programming language provides you with the tools you need to give instructions to a machine. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Running Java Programs
  6m 17s
  In this video, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn how a Java Virtual Machine or JVM ensures you only need to write a single program. This program can run on any platform, whether Linux, Windows, macOS, etc. Following along, you’ll see how this is done. Onscreen, you’ll see you have a Java program, and you want this to run on any combination of operating system and hardware. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  The JVM and the Java Ecosystem
  6m 12s
  In this video, you’ll watch a demo. You’ll learn about the workings of the JVM to better understand how to build and then run Java programs. You’ll focus on the translation from a Java program to something which gets executed on the JVM. For this, you’ll see there are a new set of transformations needed. As touched upon earlier, when you write a Java program, you save it as a file with the .java extension. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  Properties of Java
  10m 21s
  In this video, you’ll review the properties of Java. You’ll also learn some of the properties of the Java programming language. First, you’ll revisit some of the terms you’ve encountered before. You know that a programming language is effectively a means to supply a set of instructions to carry out a task. A programming language is one that has its own set of rules that can be used to define instructions used to implement algorithms. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  Java's Class Library and Garbage Collector
  7m 18s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about Java libraries. You’ll remember the Java Runtime Environment includes a Java Virtual Machine. It also includes a built-in library, which can be useful to Java developers. This is the Java Class Library, also known as JCL. Essentially, a library is a collection of commonly used programming resources. A Java library allows any Java developer to use its resources. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  Applications of Java
  9m 33s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about some of the applications or use cases of Java. First, you’ll learn the benefits of programming in Java. Programs in Java are easy to write, compile, debug, and run, especially since you can run them on any platform which has the JVM. Additionally, programs in Java offer code-reusability. You can define an entity using a class and then create multiple objects based on that class. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Course Summary
  1m 43s
  In this video, you’ll summarize what you’ve learned in this course. You learned the significant features of Java. You learned it’s a class-based, object-oriented language that’s platform-independent. You also looked at the Java ecosystem and the phases involved in translating Java code into a form that can be executed by a machine. You delved into some properties of the language, like static typing, using the just-in-time compiler, and the automatic garbage collector. FREE ACCESS