Introduction
- Introduction
- Getting Started: Installing Java
- Installing Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
- Installing Eclipse's WindowBuilder Editor
- Installing Android Studio
- Bonus Video: Java+Eclipse+Android Studio on Windows PCs
- JShell: Hello, Java!
- Using Variables in JShell
- Printing Output in JShell
- Wrapup: JShell Commands
App 1: Build a Hi-Lo Guessing Game!
- Designing a Guessing Game App
- Starting Eclipse
- Configuring Eclipse like a pro!
- Creating your first project
- Using the Scanner class for input
- Generating random numbers
- Getting user input from the keyboard
- If conditions
- Running the app in Eclipse
- Adding a Play Again loop
- Testing the game
- Review: What you've learned so far
- Bonus: How to avoid common errors
- Programming Challenge Exercise
- Challenge Solution: Counting tries
Designing a GUI Desktop App in Java
- Intro to the GUI Guessing Game
- Starting a GUI project
- Using the WindowBuilder Editor
- Adding GUI components
- Advanced GUI design
- Naming GUI elements
- Connecting the GUI to your programming code
- Adding a method to check the user's guess
- Creating a newGame() method
- Running the game
- Handling user events
- Improving the UX
- Handling errors and exceptions
- Customizing the GUI
- Programming Challenge Exercises
- Solution: Counting the tries left
- Bonus: Winning and losing!
Creating Your First Android App
- Intro to the Android Guessing Game app
- Setting up the Android Guessing Game
- Navigating the Design View in Android Studio
- Adding GUI components to the layout
- Naming GUI components for easy programming
- Connecting the GUI to your code
- Adding the checkGuess() method
- Adding the newGame() method
- Handling user events in Android
- Running on the Android Emulator
- Running the app on a real Android device!
- Improving the UX
- Programming Challenge Exercise
- Challenge Solution: Counting the Tries Left
Deciphering Secret Messages
- Intro to the Secret Messages app
- Setting up the app... and Intro to Strings!
- Adding characters and values
- Just the words, ma'am :)
- Creating a custom encryption key
- Review
- Programming Challenge Exercise
- Challenge Solution: Encode it again, Sam!
Building Advanced GUIs with Swing
- Setting up the GUI Secret Messages app
- Designing and naming the GUI
- Encoding messages with a method
- Handling button events
- Finishing and testing the app
- Adding a slider to the GUI
- Cracking codes with the slider
- Review and UX finishing touches
- Programming challenge exercise
- Challenge solution: Encode numbers, too!
Build a Social, Mobile Secret Messages App!
- Intro to the Secret Messages mobile app
- Setting up the GUI for Secret Messages
- Adding a SeekBar and wiring up the GUI
- Reusing the encode() method
- Running the app
- Review and programming challenge exercise
- Challenge solution: Press to encode/decode
Draw Colorful Bubbles with Your Mouse!
- Intro to the BubbleDraw app
- Setting up the BubbleDraw project
- Adding the app frame
- Creating a bubble class
- Using an ArrayList
- Drawing with paintComponent()
- Handling mouse events
- Drag and draw!
- Changing bubble sizes with the mouse wheel
- Animating bubbles with the timer
- Floating random bubbles
