Java Puzzles to Eliminate Code Fear
What you'll learn
- tackle any programming problem and once and for all have a command over the coding profession
- apply razor sharp logic skills you learned in the course to tackle any coding challenges that come your way
- gain massive confidence to rock coding interviews and be a dangerous programmer in the industry
Course content
- Preview05:00
- 00:27How to Setup your development environment
- 19:52Basics of Java Programming & the Main Method
- 00:04IMPORTANT - Download the Assignments Here!
- 19:02Basics of String Manipulation + Assignment
- 21:11String Manipulation Continued + Solution
- Preview19:07
- Preview19:49
- 13:39Using For Loops + Assignment & Solution
- 17:15Nested For Loops & Using the Eclipse debugger
- 15:13Using Arrays + Assignment & Solution
- 15:39Introducing Recursion + Assignment
- 09:35Recursion Continued + Solution
Requirements
- Have access to internet and the willingness to learn computer programming
Description
LAST UPDATED: November 2020
The motivation behind this course came from an article titled "Why Can't Programmers Program?" by Jeff Atwood. It talks about how poorly many candidates perform in coding interviews.
Surprisingly a large fraction of applicants, even those with masters’ degrees and phds in computer science, fail during interviews when asked to carry out basic programming tasks such as iterate over a loop and print numbers from 1 -10 . Or solve the common fizz buzz problem. And I’ve experienced this first hand when I interview candidates for software development positions. They could have an impressive academic background as well as experience in various technologies and software projects, but when posed with an interesting programming problem, their code falls apart. The fact is, you don’t need a college education to become a good programmer. Simply there is a big divide between people who can program and those that can’t. It's my experience that the difference has to do with mastering the fundamental building blocks of programming. And that’s basically method level coding and the mastery of topics like string manipulation, lists, loops, logic and recursion. These are fundamental granular components shared by all programming languages. Think of these as the tools a programmer can use to solve problems. And you really gotta know your tools well to be proficient at the craft!
You can’t learn programming by reading books. The fact is you just need a lot of practice. If you want to be a superb programmer, you have to program a lot and work on solving challenging problems that stretch your capabilities. This course offers a systematic and structured way for you to acquire that practice using only a subset of the java language without getting side tracked in other areas of software development. Every concept comes with a coding challenge. I ask you to try solving the challenge on your own before I go over the solution in detail. This approach has worked time and time again for my students.
Who this course is for:
- If you want to sharpen your programming skills by solving a bunch of programming problems to finally have a command over the programming profession, this course is for you!
- If you want to become a kick-ass problem solver using java, this course is definitely for you!
- If you want to just watch lectures passively while having popcorn without working on the programming puzzles, then this course is NOT for you!
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Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
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- 263,519 Students
- 12 Courses
Imtiaz is an award winning Udemy instructor who is highly experienced in big data technologies and enterprise software architectures. Imtiaz has spent a considerable amount of time building financial software on Wall St. and worked with companies like S&P, Goldman Sachs, AOL and JP Morgan along with helping various startups solve mission critical software problems. In his 13+ years of experience, Imtiaz has also taught software development in programming languages like Java, C++, Python, PL/SQL, Ruby and Javascript. He's the founder of Job Ready Programmer - an online programming school that prepares students of all backgrounds to become professional job-ready software developers through real-world programming courses.