Java Puzzles to Eliminate Code Fear

7h 33m 44s
English
Paid

Course description

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.

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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.

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# Title Duration
1 Course Structure 05:01
2 Basics of Java Programming & the Main Method 19:53
3 Basics of String Manipulation + Assignment 19:03
4 String Manipulation Continued + Solution 21:12
5 Conditionals & Program Flow + Assignment & Solution 19:08
6 Using While Loops + Assignment & Solution 19:50
7 Using For Loops + Assignment & Solution 13:40
8 Nested For Loops & Using the Eclipse debugger 17:16
9 Using Arrays + Assignment & Solution 15:14
10 Introducing Recursion + Assignment 15:40
11 Recursion Continued + Solution 09:35
12 Watch Before Moving Forward - IMPORTANT ! 19:05
13 Logic Centric Puzzles + Solutions 14:49
14 More Logic Centric Puzzles + Solutions 19:53
15 Concluding Logic Puzzles + Solutions 11:34
16 Looping Puzzles + Solutions 20:00
17 Looping Puzzles Continued + Solutions 19:59
18 Recursion Puzzles 09:47
19 More Recursion Puzzles 09:00
20 Class And Object 12:36
21 Program Flow 11:41
22 Java Behind The Scenes 24:08
23 Application Runtime 11:11
24 Class Inheritance 13:53
25 Interfaces and Abstractions 11:29
26 Abstract Classes 15:25
27 Abstract Data Types (Newly Added) 10:19
28 Stacks 19:29
29 Stacks (HW Solution) 05:36
30 Queues 18:18

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