• Create an account on replit.com (instructions)

• Create an account on codewars.com (instructions)

• Send us your account details (instructions)

References for account creation and verification:

• Here's a video to guide you on how to -

1. Create an account on codewars.com

• Here's a video to guide you on how to -

1. Create an account on replit.com (select Java as your preferred language while creating the account)

While raising a ticket on help.crio.do to get mentor support, please fill the details as advised below:

• Click on 'New Support Ticket'

• Choose Program as 'QA-JAVA-1'

• Select the appropriate issue type. In this case, choose 'mentor support' :)

Learning Goal for the week

By the end of the Week 1, you will:

# Become familiar with using Replit (for use in live sessions) & Codewars (for solving problems)

# Be applying the concepts of dry run and pseudo code

# Become familiar with different types of errors and learn how to debug & fix them.

# Solve atleast 10 given problems on CodeWars.

Orientation

Status: Completed

When: 8 PM to 9:30 PM on Sat, April 2

Where: Link

Live Working Session - 1

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Tuesday, April 5

Where: Link

Session Topics

• Getting familiar with Replit

• D1. Compiling and Executing a Java Program - javac and java commands

• C3. Introduction to Debugging - Compile time and Run time Errors

Note:

Please be ready with login into your replit accounts. We will be learning by doing.

Live Working Session - 2

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Wed, April 6

Where: Link

Session Topics

• C1. Introduction to Dry Run

• D2. Variables & Data Types

• D3. Operators (Arithmetic, Relational & Logical)

• C3. Introduction to Debugging - Compile time and Run time Errors | Continued

• Getting familiar with Codewars

Takeaway Exercises

1. If number is a factor

2. Twice as Old

3. Will you make it?

Live Working Session - 3

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Fri, Apr 8

Where: Link

Session Topics

• D4. Conditionals (if-else)

• Methods

• Getting familiar with Codewars

Takeaway Exercises

4. Convert Boolean value to String "Yes" or "No"

5. Return negative

6. How old will I be in in 2099?

Related to - Logic, Conditional

Live Working Session - 4

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Sat, Apr 9

Where: Link

Session Topics

• Conditionals - Nested If-Else

• Loops -for loop, while loop

• String concatenation

• Synthesis of the week & Codewars Practice Problem

Takeaway Exercise

7. Grasshopper - summation

Related to - Loop

8. Sum Arrays

Related to - Array, Conditional, Loop

9. 101 Dalmatians

Related to - Array, Conditional

10. Are the numbers in order?

Related to - Array, Logic

11. Points of reflection

Related to - Array

12. Rock Paper Scissors

Related to - Logic, Conditional, String |

Note - instead of using == to compare Strings, use .equals method. For eg. String1.equals(String2)

13. Expressions Matter

Conditional

Live Working Session - 5

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Tuesday, Apr 12

Where: Link

Session Topics

• D1. Introduction to Class - properties

• D2. Introduction to Class - Objects

• D3. Introduction to Class - methods

In session Exercises -

• Sale of Hot Dogs

• PadIt (on replit)

• PrintShapes (on replit)

Takeaway Exercises

14. If you can't sleep, just count sheep!!

15. A wolf in sheep’s clothing

16. Well of ideas

17. Number Star Ladder

Live Working Session - 6

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Wed, Apr 13

Where: Link

Session Topics

• Codewars Practice Time

• Pairing with peers on solving codewars Problem

• Self Learning Packet for takeaway

Note:

Please be ready with login into your replit accounts. We will be learning by doing.

Takeaway Exercises

18 - Activity #2 - "this" is a problem

19 - Playing with cubes

20- Color Ghost

21 - The Wide-Mouthed Frog

22 - Sentence Smash

Live Working Session - 7

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Fri, Apr 15

Where: Link

Session Topics

• D4. this

• D5. Constructor (default, paramterised)

• D6. Access Specifiers - public, private

• D7. Getters & Setters

Note:

Please be ready with login into your replit accounts. We will be learning by doing.

Takeaway Exercises

23 - Convert a Number to a String!

Hint - Lookup valueOf() method

Live Working Session - 8

Status: Completed

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Sat, Apr 16

Where: Link

Session Topics

• D8. Static fields & methods

• D9. final keyword

• D11. String class and its methods

• Weekly Synthesis

In Session Codewars Exercises -

• Squash the bugs

• Smallest value of an array

• Remove String Spaces

• A Strange Trip to the Market

• Remove First and Last Character

Takeaway Exercises

24 - Find nearest square number

25 - Cockroach

26 - Sum of Odd Cubed Numbers

Weekly Goal

By the end of week 3, you will:

# Develop a fluent understanding of using Classes

# Solve problems using Java Collections - ArrayList, HashMap, HashSet

# Be able to take user input using Scanner class & command line arguments

# Solve at least 15 Codewars problems

Live Working Session - 9

Status: Scheduled

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Tuesday, Apr 19

Where: Link

Session Topics

• Practicing String Library methods on Codewars

• D1. Implementing our own list functionality using classes and objects

Takeaway Exercises

• This session will also have a 1 hour long self-learning Packet as a takeaway

27. Vowel Count

28. Switcheroo

29. Are You Playing Banjo?

Live Working Session - 10

Status: Scheduled

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Wed, Apr 20

Where: Link

Session Topics

• D2. Packages (before introducing Collections)

• D4. Collections - ArrayList

Takeaway Exercises

30. Unfinished Loop - Bug fixing

31. Palindrome Chain Length

32. Testing 1-2-3

Live Working Session - 11

Status: Scheduled

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Sat, Apr 23

Where: Link

Takeaway Exercises

• This session will have a Synthesis Packet as takeaway

HashMap

33. Welcome!

34. Character Counter

35. Find count of the most frequent element in the array

HashSet

36. Remove Duplicates

ArrayList

37. Filtering even number

Weekly Goal

By the end of week 4, you will:

# Complete all the codewars problems for the sprint (55+)

# Complete your sprint synthesis journal

# Clarify most of your doubts through Q&A sessions, peer group and in the live working session.

Live Working Session - 12

Status: Scheduled

When: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM on Thu, Apr 28

Where: Link

Agenda -

• D3. Wrapper Classes (Integer and Float) - before introducing Collections

• JRE? JDK/ JVM

• Sprint Synthesis -

  • a. Review of all the concepts covered

  • b. Questions and doubts to deepen understanding.