Java Tutorial for Complete Beginners

• Introduction and Installation

• What Java Is and How It Works

• Getting a Job and What to Study After Completing Basic Java

• How To Get The Most Out Of This Course

• A Hello World Program

• Using Variables

• Strings: Working With Text

• While Loops

• For Loops

• "If"

• Getting User Input

• Do ... While

• Switch

• Arrays

• Arrays of Strings

• Multi-Dimensional Arrays

• Classes and Objects

• Methods

• Getters and Return Values

• Method Parameters

• Setters and "this"

• Constructors

• Static (and Final)

• String Builder and String Formatting

• The toString Method

• Inheritance

• Packages

• Interfaces

• Public, Private, Protected

• Polymorphism

• Encapsulation and the API Docs

• Casting Numerical Values

• Upcasting and Downcasting

• Using Generics

• Generics and Wildcards

• Anonymous Classes

• Reading Files Using Scanner

• Handling Exceptions

• Multiple Exceptions

• Runtime vs. Checked Exceptions

• Abstract Classes

• Reading Files With File Reader

• Try-With-Resources

• Creating and Writing Text Files

• The Equals Method

• Inner Classes

• Enum Types: Basic and Advanced Usage

• Recursion: A Useful Trick Up Your Sleeve

• Serialization: Saving Objects to Files

• Serializing Arrays

• The Transient Keyword and More Serialization

• Passing by Value

• ArrayList: Arrays the Easy Way

• Linked Lists

• HashMap: Retrieving Objects via a Key

• Sorted Maps

• Sets

• Using Custom Objects in Sets and as Keys in Maps

• Sorting Lists

• Natural Ordering

• Queues

• Using Iterators

• Implementing Iterable

• Deciding Which Collection to Use

• Complex Data Structures

• Eclipse Shortcuts

• Getting a Job Extended Version: What you need, a strategy for finding work, and my story.

• Ten Tips for Improving Your Coding

• Debugging in Eclipse

• Lambda Expressions

• Basic Java Programming: Test Your Knowledge

• Source Code

• Bonus: Learn Advanced Java