Interactive Java & JShell: Writing Java Programs with the Interactive JShell

IN THIS COURSE

• 1.  Course Overview
  2m 17s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about your instructor and this course. You’ll learn how JShell allows you to run Java code and get immediate results. This instant feedback can help you confirm your code's behavior and speed up your development work. You’ll also explore features of JShell like the declaration of functions and feedback modes available to the auto-complete feature. You'll then move on to defining a class and do this in various iterations. FREE ACCESS
• 2.  Running Commands and Snippets on JShell
  12m 19s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about the use of JShell. You’ll learn Jshell is an interactive tool that makes it easy to write Java programs in an iterative manner. That is, you can write bits of Java code, execute it, and then view the results immediately before moving on and building up on your code base. JShell provides a repl environment for Java Programmers, where repl is short for read, evaluate, print, loop. FREE ACCESS
• 3.  Defining and Calling Functions in JShell
  12m 57s
  In this video, you’ll learn JShell function definitions. You’ll begin with one of the simplest functions. It calculates the sum of two numbers and then returns it. This is a function called returnSum whose arguments are two integers, x and y. Its return type is int. And in the function body, you have is return x + y. This expression inside the body is terminated by a semicolon. Semicolons are required inside the function bodies. FREE ACCESS
• 4.  Defining Functions Referencing External Variables
  7m 24s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about functions, but while doing so, you’ll also explore a few additional concepts. These include references to variables outside of the function definition. First, you’ll learn a function called usdToEUR. This introduces you to an example that you’ll use repeatedly throughout this learning path. FREE ACCESS
• 5.  Adjusting Feedback Modes in JShell
  11m 51s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about the degree of instant feedback you’ll get in JShell. You’ll learn this is something that can be controlled. This is where the different Feedback Modes in JShell come into the picture. In this demo, you’ll view the value assigned to the variable EUR_USD. You’ll see you can simply type it in the Shell and then hit Enter. The output immediately confirms what the value is. FREE ACCESS
• 6.  Using the Auto-complete Feature in JShell
  8m 19s
  In this video, you’ll learn more about JShell's Auto-complete Feature. You’ll watch a demo on this. First, you’ll type in the name of one of the functions you’ve created, usdToEUR. You’ll open up a parenthesis. Once you’ve specified the function name and an open parenthesis, so you can hit the Tab button on the keyboard to view the auto-complete options. FREE ACCESS
• 7.  Working with Different JShell Features
  10m 27s
  In this video, you’ll learn JShell offers an environment to write code, execute code for quick feedback, and then iteratively build upon your code base. So far, you’ve covered the use of variables as well as functions, now you’ll touch on the use of Java Arrays. You’ll learn more about control structures, such as for loops and other Java-related programming features when using JShell. FREE ACCESS
• 8.  Working with User-defined Types in JShell
  10m 33s
  In this video, you’ll learn the most common way of building Java applications is to use an IDE such as IntelliJ or Eclipse. However, if you want to develop a quick Java program to perform a few transformations, JShell offers a much better interface. It allows you to get quick feedback on your work and quickly develop a prototype and convert it to a script. FREE ACCESS
• 9.  Updating User-defined Types in JShell
  5m 14s
  In this video, you’ll continue building upon the Product class created in the previous course. Currently, you have five different fields for your Product as well as a constructor, which takes in five arguments where each of the fields can be assigned a value. To view the default representation of an object in the form of a String, you’ll look at the output of the vars command, specifically the representation of the zofMonitor object. FREE ACCESS
• 10.  Loading Data from a File into JShell
  12m 58s
  In this video, you’ll learn how to load data from a file into JShell. You now have a Product class you can work with. You’ve also tested the Product class by creating two objects of that class. You’ll now take a look at the file needed to read the product information. You’ll see the csv file onscreen. This is called products.csv and each line represents a single Product. This is a comma-separated value file. FREE ACCESS
• 11.  Writing Data to a File Using JShell
  8m 7s
  In this video, you’ll see there’s Product information available inside the csv file. You’ll read from that file, load the Product details into objects of type Product, and then apply some transformations before writing the transformed data into another file. In past demos, you’ve read from the csv file, loaded the information into Product objects, and now you’ll apply transformations to the data and then write to a file. FREE ACCESS
• 12.  Building and Running JShell Scripts
  10m 45s
  In this video, you’ll combine all that you’ve done in previous demos into a single script. For this demo, there are two files needed, and those are in the directory. You’ll head to your home directory /Project/Skillsoft. Running an ls shows you there are two files available. The first is the JShell script, which was created using the different snippets you’ve previously explored. This file has the extension jsh representing a JShell script. FREE ACCESS
• 13.  Course Summary
  2m 48s
  In this video, you’ll summarize what you’ve learned in the course. You started by opening the JShell environment and learned how it can be used to interactively execute chunks of Java code. You learned JShell gives instant feedback in the form of output for the individual snippets. You created and viewed various variables, defined and invoked functions, and explored how they can reference external variables. You then learned about feedback modes. FREE ACCESS