Programming Course for Beginners - Become a Software Dev

Write your first line of Java code, learn basic syntax, and explore Android apps and server-side projects to build transferable IT skills for a software developer career.

Learn how the main method starts Java applications and how to translate everyday decisions into code. Explore algorithms as step-by-step instructions and branching with traffic-light scenarios.

Understand how the computer reads Java code exactly as written, from top to bottom left to right, and executes instructions in order, not interpreting text between instructions.

Learn to write code by understanding programming syntax and treating each language like a foreign tongue. Build and document applications by expressing functionality in code and helpful descriptions.

Learn to document code by adding comments that describe what you write, preparing a growing program for easier maintenance as you create applications and work with information.

Create a new java project in IntelliJ, generate a main method with PSVM, and practice console output by printing long numbers with the L suffix, using System.out.print and println.

Learn variables in Java by declaring and initializing data types like int, double, float, char, boolean, and string, follow camel case, print values with system.out.println, and support changing values.

Explore how computers process information, using ints, doubles, characters, and truth values, and learn how variables store data and how conditional statements guide actions.

Practice Java variables by declaring char, double or float, boolean, and int types; print values on one line and on separate lines; perform arithmetic operations, noting integer division.

Learn how variables are boxes holding information accessible across your app, guiding decisions, while embracing logic over math through practice.

Practice with java operators by declaring int variables, computing sum, difference, multiply, and division, using printf and concatenation, and exploring modulo, comments, and a multiplication table.

Explore how to read user input in Java using the scanner class, create a scanner object, and call methods such as nextLine, nextInt, nextDouble, and nextBoolean to handle text, numbers.

Read console input with a scanner and print prompts. Compute sum, difference, product, and average of three numbers, and convert Celsius to Fahrenheit with double arithmetic and formatted output.

Apply basic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, to let the computer compute results, while learning how modifying information guides program decisions and condition-based behavior.

Explore implementing an algorithm using boolean comparisons that yield true or false. See how a computer decides to cross the street at a traffic light based on these conditions.

Explore decision making in Java using if-else constructs to implement algorithms determining adults vs minors, and traffic light outcomes, using conditions and string comparisons with equals and equals ignore case.

Write your first algorithm that uses a condition to display a message when a number is greater than zero and explores what happens when the condition is false.