Java for students

Java is a popular and widely used programming language. It was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems’ Java platform. The language’s syntax has much in common with C and C++, but its object model is simpler and has less low-level facilities. Undoubtedly, one of Java’s strong points is an automatic memory management. The developer determines when objects are created, but it’s a runtime task to free memory, when objects are no longer in use.

Java is a good choice for students, either studying computer science or related subjects. Here we present a collection of Java tutorials helping students to get started with the language, setup a development environment and master the basics.

Java tutorials

1. Setting up Eclipse: Java’s popular IDE
2. Hello world program line by line
3. Variables, types, loops, if statement
4. Practice. Developing "number guessing game" step by step

5. True/false, boolean type, logical connectives
6. Strings
7. Switch statement
8. Practice. Menu-driven "bank account" application

Code snippets

1. Hello world
2. Number guessing game
3. Strings comparison
4. Sum of digits of a number
5. Convert String to int and int to String
6. Print command-line arguments
7. Switch-operated text menu
8. Decimal to binary converter