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About the Course

Learn to code in Java and improve your programming and problem-solving skills. You will learn to design algorithms as well as develop and debug programs. Using custom open-source classes, you will write programs that access and transform images, websites, and other types of data. At the end of the course you will build a program that determines the popularity of different baby names in the US over time by analyzing comma separated value (CSV) files. After completing this course you will be able to: 1. Edit, compile, and run a Java program; 2. Use conditionals and loops in a Java program; 3. Use Java API documentation in writing programs. 4. Debug a Java program using the scientific method; 5. Write a Java method to solve a specific problem; 6. Develop a set of test cases as part of developing a program; 7. Create a class with multiple methods that work together to solve a problem; and 8. Use divide-and-conquer design techniques for a program that uses multiple methods....

Top reviews

JT

Feb 25, 2019

A basic practice approach for solving problems with a 7step formula for any kind of problem set, for any kind of programming language you use. A very basic approach to JAVA syntax and semantics.

HB

Apr 24, 2021

The course was well structured but I feel the content could have incorporated more concepts. I feel like there's so much basic JAVA that's not covered. But otherwise the teachers did a great job.

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By KABWE L A

Dec 22, 2017

Maybe, you should let us manipulate more the file, because the dukes library is doing much. But, in general this cours was interesting !!!

By Vivek K

Sep 7, 2019

It is good for beginner.It's provide me lot of basic knowledge of String.I have enjoyed too much.

Last week of work was so interesting .

By Jay O

Aug 13, 2025

Good Learning With Hands on Programming Simplified BlueJ Coding Experience Interacting with variety of datasets like csv, image etc

By Musa M N

Dec 24, 2016

Incredibly comprehensive learning package which makes learning and skills acquisition easier. Kudos to the creators and instructors

By Beat N

Jul 13, 2020

I liked the content and the presentation. One input, though: I really would like to learn about unit tests early in the program.

By Stanislav S

Dec 9, 2017

Nice course, even though the 1st week assignments are not that good, but the rest of the course I enjoyed every single minute.

By Gabriel T

Feb 6, 2016

Great course and delivery!

If only there would be more help in the forums by assistants or tutors it would have gotten a 5 star

By Abhishek R

Mar 13, 2019

Great course! Sometimes the guidance was a bit confusing but after enough looking over my notes I was able to do it properly.

By Soumyajit P

Feb 18, 2016

Good course and quite unique approach... could have been more interesting and fun! Video presentation is too geeky at times.

By Mary S

Mar 30, 2018

Material too repetitive for my tastes, but some may find that reinforces learning. The baby names project was kind of fun.

By Apurva H

Jul 29, 2017

PLEASE teach us how to use a better IDE. BlueJ sucks, compared to, for example, something like Spyder for Python. PLEASE.

By Roberto R

Nov 23, 2016

I liked the fact that the final tests need your code.... so if you do not understand what you have done you will fail :-)

By Wei Q

Jan 20, 2022

Everything is perfect except for the discussion forum. It would be greatly improved if TAs can provide more supervision.

By KALE M G P

Jul 17, 2020

This course will help u problem solving skill as well as how to debug and find Compilation Failure and to Rectify it

By Anne-Marie C A

Aug 11, 2016

This Course's content was so clear and so enlightening! I really appreciate these instructors strategy! so different!

By Mahammadshabbir N

Mar 15, 2022

the cource was full of information and the best part is to learn the 7 step approach to solve any software problems.

By Alfred R

May 24, 2018

Good course, but you've to be aware that the assignments, which is set to 10 minuttes, often takes from 2 - 4 hours.

By Reena A

May 21, 2020

The hands-on experience does have a great impact in helping learn how to use java to solve basic yet tedious tasks

By Ayushi M

Apr 21, 2020

This course is extremely useful for beginners. Very nicely taught lectures and assignments are worth time giving.

By vraj S

Sep 21, 2019

this course is very helpful for computer science students. It helps us to improve our programming skills in java.

By Kerry W

Jun 9, 2017

Good content but I wish the topics moved a little quicker. Seems like there is more hand holding than necessary.

By Yun L

Apr 30, 2017

Good course for new programmer. Enough exercise for basic programming though isn't what I am looking for.

By SAKKURI B P

Dec 16, 2020

Excellent course to do and understand java. The week 2 is a bit tricky to understand but yet it is great

By Rahul K

Jan 18, 2021

This course was really helpful. all the teachers were really good at their jobs and I learned a lot.

By Joe S

Nov 6, 2018

The first week was a bit rough, learning curve was way too steep. It gets better on the second week.