Java Programming Bootcamp: Zero to Mastery

Join our Java bootcamp to gain the skills needed to thrive as a Backend Developer in 2024, streamlining your learning experience.

Say goodbye to outdated, unclear, or insufficient tutorials (we’ve all been there!).

We begin with the basics and quickly advance your skills, enabling you to build modern, professional backends independently.

Our success stories highlight our impact.

Graduates of Zero To Mastery have secured positions at top companies like Google, Tesla, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Uber, Facebook, Shopify, and more. They also excel as top freelancers, working remotely worldwide.

You can achieve this as well.

By enrolling today, you’ll gain access to our exclusive live online learning community, where you can collaborate and grow with thousands of fellow learners, mentors, TAs, and instructors.

Most importantly, you’ll learn from an expert with real-world Java experience.

Why Java?

Java is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. But why is it essential? It’s versatile, object-oriented, and perfect for web, mobile, and desktop applications. One of its standout features is its platform independence.

Confused about this or why it matters?

No worries! Think of it this way:

Popular programming language + high industry demand = excellent job opportunities

Currently, there are over 76,000 job openings for Java Developers on ZipRecruiter.

Java’s higher-level syntax simplifies coding, making it accessible to beginners.

However, Java might not be as easy to grasp as some other beginner-friendly languages like Python or JavaScript.

Yet, its moderate complexity leads to abundant job opportunities for skilled developers.

If you’re looking for:

1. A relatively easy-to-learn language
2. A field with many job openings
3. High salary potential

Then it’s time to dive into Java!

Here’s what you’ll learn in this Java Bootcamp:

This course is regularly updated, keeping up with the evolving Java ecosystem and includes fresh lectures and resources. This will be your primary resource for the latest Java practices and knowledge moving forward.

Important Note: Each section includes step-by-step exercises and solutions, allowing you to test your skills and reinforce your understanding, ensuring a solid foundation for your Java journey.

Here’s a glance at the course content:

1. INTRODUCTION TO JAVA - Get to know Java, its importance, and the course structure along with the technical setup.

2. JAVA APPLICATION STRUCTURE - Learn to work with classes, objects, packages, and class members, plus practice application structuring through a football tournament project.

3. JAVA VARIABLES AND ARRAYS - Master Java primitives, strings, arrays, operations, and casting through practical exercises.

4. JAVA PRIMITIVES VS. OBJECTS - Understand the differences between primitives and objects, the stack and heap, and passing by value versus reference.

5. JAVA CONTROL FLOW - Gain proficiency in control flow constructs like if, switch, while, do-while, for, and for-each loops.

6. CREATING AND UTILIZING JAVA METHODS - Learn to create methods, handle input parameters, define return types, and effectively invoke methods.

7. ACCESS MODIFIERS AND STATIC - Delve into access modifiers (public, protected, default, private) and the static modifier.

8. JAVA STRINGS AND STRINGBUILDER - Understand the String class, immutability, string comparison, and the use of StringBuilder.

9. HANDLING DATES AND TIMES IN JAVA - Explore LocalDate, LocalTime, LocalDateTime, ZonedDateTime, Duration, Period, and date formatting.

10. JAVA OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (OOP) - Learn the principles of OOP, its three core pillars, and implement inheritance across various classes.

11. INTERMEDIATE JAVA: CONSTRUCTORS - Understand constructors, including default versus custom, super() and this(), and constructors in inheritance.

12. INTERMEDIATE JAVA: ENUMS - Learn about enums, basic enums, and enums with fields, with hands-on exercises to strengthen your understanding.

13. INTERMEDIATE JAVA: INTERFACES AND ABSTRACT CLASSES - Gain proficiency in working with interfaces and abstract classes.

14. INTERMEDIATE JAVA: COLLECTIONS AND GENERICS - Understand generics, learn the collection frameworks (List, Set, Queue, Map), and create a class with a type parameter.

15. INTERMEDIATE JAVA: HANDLING EXCEPTIONS - Learn about exceptions, how to throw and handle them, and customize exceptions.

16. INTERMEDIATE JAVA: FILE OPERATIONS - Understand how to read from and write to files using FileReader and FileWriter.

17. ADVANCED JAVA: LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS AND FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES - Use functional interfaces, lambda expressions, and built-in functional interfaces.

18. ADVANCED JAVA: FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING - Understand method references, the Stream API, and using the Stream API with lambdas.

19. ADVANCED JAVA: JAVA MEMORY CONCEPTS - This area is my (Maaike) favorite! Here, you'll discover Java memory concepts like heap, stack, metaspace, and garbage collection.

20. ADVANCED JAVA: CONCURRENCY - Begin your journey into multithreading, including creating and managing threads.

So, what’s the conclusion?

This course doesn’t aim to have you coding mindlessly without understanding core principles; it intends to elevate your understanding, so upon completion, you won’t just search for the next Java tutorial.

This course will push you to grow from a novice to someone in the top 10% of Java developers 💪.

And there’s no risk involved! Start learning today, and if the course doesn’t meet your expectations, we offer a full refund within 30 days—no fuss, no questions asked.