Software Development Fundamentals
Learn the fundamentals of object-oriented programming in Java, as well as best practices of modern software development.
Created by: Arvind Bhusnurmath
Course Description
Start your journey toward becoming a professional software developer by learning Java, one of the industry's most commonly used programming languages.
This course, part of the CS Essentials for Software Development Professional Certificate program, will quickly cover Java syntax and keywords and then explore features of object-oriented programming including encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. You will learn how to apply these concepts to programmatic problem solving by investigating class modeling techniques and relationships such as aggregation, realization, and generalization.
In addition to programming, you will learn about software testing techniques that help us find problems in our code, and you will use modern development environments and tools for tasks like debugging and unit testing. We will introduce Eclipse, the eclipse debugger and Junit (a unit testing framework).
After completing this course, you will be able to design, develop, and test large applications in Java and understand and apply core principles of professional software development.
Week 1: Java basics.
Week 2: Testing and Debugging.
Week 3: Collections. Object Oriented Design.
Week 4: Polymorphism - Interfaces, Inheritance, Overloading, Overriding.
Instructor Details
Arvind is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in the Computer and Information Science department. He received his M.Tech in Maths and Computing from IIT Delhi in 2002 and his PhD from UPenn in 2008. He worked in a data analytics company for 5 years and has been teaching since 2013.
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