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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

AS

Dec 10, 2020

Excellent explanations and amount of course work for practice, the tests made good use of the examples and work given, I am satisfied with what I learned in this course and see it's real world usage.

FA

Oct 7, 2017

Excellent explanations and amount of course work for practice, the tests made good use of the examples and work given, I am satisfied with what I learned in this course and see it's real world usage.

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By Kishaan J

Jan 16, 2017

They make programming look so easy! Enjoyed the course! Thank you!

By NISHANT C

Jul 28, 2020

It's a very good course and have good programming practicals....

By Ankit K

Jun 12, 2020

The projects in the course were the best. I really enjoyed them.

By Jesus D L R

Apr 13, 2016

Muy buen curso para comprender y mejorar las estructuras de Java

By Rohan S

Mar 15, 2020

A very elaborate course with an efficient teaching methodology.

By Shilpa V

Nov 12, 2017

Good course for building problem solving skills for a beginner.

By shital w

Dec 20, 2022

Concept are explain nicely specially Problem solving approach.

By Hongliang L

May 9, 2020

it would be great to add getName method to FileResource class.

By Devesh P

Sep 30, 2018

Good Covering of the topics and clear covering of the concepts

By Zenine X

Aug 22, 2016

In the assignment of week2 , the Algorithm was not made clear.

By BtechBoy R

Feb 5, 2021

Very professional and understandable classes...learn anywhere

By Arunkumar S

Nov 15, 2020

Good explanation whole team. Easy to understand every chapter

By Chenzhe S

Oct 7, 2019

WEEK 2 was not very clearly Hope can have some improvements.

By Tamalika B

Jun 28, 2020

this code definitely helped me to get better at java coding.

By Leslie W

Jun 23, 2018

The quizzes are quite challenging. There could be more tips.

By Joseph E

Aug 6, 2017

Not Enough Focus on java syntax for the beginner programmer.

By Harsh R

May 7, 2021

I really enjoyed the course. Thanks to all the instructors.

By Pranjal L

May 13, 2020

Strings should be explained in a better manner rest is good

By NALLAMILLI R C R V

Mar 20, 2023

this coursera is soo usefuls to us to learn thank you

By Shah R

Feb 26, 2022

Thanks for providing such an amazing learning experience.

By Ahmed M A

May 30, 2021

i think examples have to be less need to domian knowledge

By Constance F

Dec 28, 2016

Great course but be prepared for a pretty hefty workload.

By Marcello F

Oct 17, 2015

Very good course taking into consideration the first week

By Nasir A K

Feb 16, 2022

Helped me to devlop logic and how to approach a problem

By Zilin G

Feb 20, 2021

This course is great project for beginner of programing.