Course materials & problems for HackBulgaria's Programming 101 with Java. Starting November 2015.

The course is happening thanks to:

This is a detailed program about the course, separated in weeks

• Installing Linux
• Introducing Java with syntax, types & language constructs
• Problem solving & debugging using Java

• Introducing shell & basic Linux commands
• Working with Java command-line tools - java, javac, jar
• Introducing git and GitHub

• Introducing Java OOP concepts & solving OOP problems.
  • Classes, methods, attributes, constructors, scope modifiers, static stuff, etc.

• Introducing Generic Types
• Introducing Java Collections & data structures in Java
• Solving problems with different data structures.

• Second take on Java OOP concepts
  • Interfaces
  • Inheritence & Abstract Classes
  • Polymorhism

• Third take on Java OOP concepts
  • Implementing multiple interfaces
  • Nested & Anonymous classes.
  • Java OOP quirks

• Introducing IO in Java - Files & Streams
• Dealing with exceptions in Java

• Introducing Test Driven Development with jUnit
• Introducing review process in software development
• Working with tools like checkstyle and PMD

• Introducing Threads in Java
• Working with Java concurrency.
• Blowing our minds.

• Looking at the bigger picture - objected oriented design
• Desining larger systems & making bigger software projects using everything we know up to now.

• Introducing databases - SQL, JDBC

• Introducing Maven
• Working with 3rd party libraries, like Apache HTTP Client

• Working with annotations & reflections
• Introducing the concept for ORM with Hibernate

• Java 8 & Functional programming in Java
• Working with Servlets & Tomcat
• How to distribute software? Deployment process with Maven / Ant / Gradle.

• Introducing and working with Spring