• JAVA FOUNDATIONS and OOPS

    Basics for BEGINNERS all the way up to OBJECT ORIENTED CONCEPTS and algoRITHMS

  • COURSE OBJECTIVES

    • Understand the power of programming in solving problems
    • Understand what a software hiring manager validates when hiring a software engineer
    • Learn how to make Java a go-to-tool for applying it in solving problems in our day-2-day life
    • Review the fundamentals of writing Java programming
    • Learn advanced programming concepts such as inheritance and encapsulation
    • Learn how to translate requirements into design, pseudo code and program
    • Learn to create algorithms in programming such as number sorting
    • Team based programming using GITHUB

  • PROGRAM DETAILS

    HELPING TO FALL IN LOVE WITH STEM

    1

    JAVA and Programming Basics

    • What is Programming? 
    • What is Java? 
    • Review of basic concepts of Java
    • Role of Java in problem-solving 
    • Assignment Sample: Given an integer n. Find politeness of number n. The politeness of a number is defined as the number of ways it can be expressed as the sum of consecutive integers.
    2

    Data Types, Variables and Expressions

    • Assignment Sample: Write a program to calculate the percentage increase in the cylinder if the height and or radius is increased/decreased by a given percentage. 
    3

    GrapHics and Games

    • Assignment Sample: Write a program that displays a clock. It should ask the user to input an hour and minutes, and then have the code draw a clock face with the hour and minute hands in the correct position.
    4

    OBJECT ORIENTED CONCEPTS

    • Assignment Sample: Write a class to build your own custom car which has cool new wheels, color and other features.
    5

    Looping, CONDITIONALS and iterations

    • Assignment Sample: Morphe images to change its face or make it run etc.

    • Write a program to check whether a product of digits at even places is divisible by the sum of digits at the odd place of a number.

    6

    Strings

    • Assignment Sample: Write a function that returns an acronym for a string consisting of the all capital letter of each word in a string. For example, make_acronym('Competitive Kids STEM') would return 'CKSTEM'.

    • Write a program to find if a word is a palindrome.

    7

    Flow of Control

    • Assignment Samples: Write a program to calculate maximum profit after buying and selling the stocks

    • Write a program that asks the user to enter a positive integer n and then outputs the nth Fibonacci number.

    • Solve a simple 3x3 or a complex 9x9 sudoku using lists.

    8

    Mid Term PROJECT

    • The mid term project will be assigned in week 3. Students are supposed to use all concepts taught through the term and demo their solution in the mid-term weeks The project will be marked based on the creativity and use of concepts taught.
    9

    ARRAYS and functions

    • Assignment Sample: Write a function to set custom values for your own robot.
    • Write a program that simulates rolling two 6-sided dice 100 times, and keeps track of how many times each sum occurs. What sum appears the most number of times? Print a table that shows a difference in the ratio of the actual occurrence to its theoretical probability. What happens if we increase frequency to 1000 or even higher numbers?
    10

    OOPS ENCAPSULATION

    • Assignment Sample: Write a function that takes a name as input and sets it inside the instance of a class.
    • How to hide your data with an example of a TV circuit that is only accessible internally and not to users. Why its important to hide data.
    11

    INHERITANCE

    • Assignment Sample: Write a program to build your own bike which inherits properties of a vehicle and users some of them.
    12

    POLYMORPHISM

    • Assignment Sample: Write a program to create your own favorite animal with custom sounds, color etc. using animal Class
    13

    USING PACKAGES AND INTERFACES

    • How the packages make it easy to keep all your code together.
    • Skeleton interfaces that can be implemented for multiple classes
    • Assignment Sample: Create an interface that enforces your car to have 4  wheels and 4 doors.
    14

    DEBUGGING AND AUTO TESTING YOUR CODE

    • Learn to work together using GITHUB to build big software programs
    • Assignment sample: Create and run your code automatically using various sample edge test cases and see where it fails and fix it
    15

    FINAL PROJECT

    • The final project will be assigned in after mid-term. Students are supposed to use all concepts taught through the year and demo their solution in the final 2 weeks. The project will be marked based on the creativity and use of concepts taught.

  • COURSE LOGISTICS

    35

    Total Number of Sessions

    60

    Length of each session in minutes

    Sep 14, 2021

    First session starts, weekly

    6:30 pm

    Eastern Time (ET) when we will meet online live every Tuesday

  • ENROLL

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