JAVA PROGRAMMING FOR BEGINNERS
CURRICULUM

1. IDE, Hello World and Basic Java Program Structure

2. Source Code, Bytecode, JVM and Platform Independence

3. Constants, Primitive Data Types and Variables

• Assignment

• Objects in Memory

4. Operators

• Writing Simple Programs

• Commenting

• Debugging in the IDE

5. Conditions and Logical Expressions

• if Statements

6. Counter-Controlled Loops

• for Loops

7. Object Types

• Strings

• One-Dimensional Arrays

• Filling Arrays with Random Values

8. Additional Loop Types

• for-each

• while

• do-while

• Infinite Loops

9. Working with Strings

• String Concatenation with StringBuilder

• Method Chaining

10. Modular Thinking

• Procedures

• Functions

11. Procedures and Functions

• Parameter Passing

• Return Values

12. Rules of Written Specifications, Pseudocode and Flowcharts

13. Object-Oriented Thinking

• Fields

• Methods

14. Java Classes

• Fields

• Constructors

• Methods

• this()

15. Value Equality and Object Equality

• Object Cloning

16. Variable Scope

• Local Variables

• Class Variables

17. Fundamentals of Inheritance

• General Principles

• Java-Specific Implementation

18. Access Modifiers

• public

• private

• protected

19. Exception Handling

• Exception Classes

20. Packages and Organization

• Packages

• Imports

21. Mutable and Immutable Objects

22. Records

• Immutable Data-Carrying Classes

23. Working with Complex Objects in Arrays

24. Designing Summation and Averaging Algorithms Using Pseudocode

25. Implementing Summation and Averaging Based on Pseudocode

26. Counting, Conditional Summation and Conditional Averaging from Written Specifications

27. Filtering and Linear Search by ID Field

28. Principles and Design of Binary Search Using Pseudocode

29. Implementing Binary Search from Pseudocode

30. Implementing Selection Sort from a Flowchart