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Java Lesson 3 – Creating Classes

Today we will be covering the creation of classes and then using them in combination with each other. Firstly, we’re going to want to create a package in the IDE. You can do this by right-clicking the “src” directory in the project exporer and selecting “new->package”. Once we have the package we will be readyContinue reading “Java Lesson 3 – Creating Classes”

Java Lesson 2 – Useful Classes

Primitives as Objects Last time we saw that Java had access to several primitive data types. One could argue that the presence of these primitives means that Java is technically not a pure object-oriented language. Fortunately, Java actually has objects for the primitives built in. This offers special functions that you can use when workingContinue reading “Java Lesson 2 – Useful Classes”

Java Lesson 1 – The Basics

Last time we set up the IDE and the JDK so that we’re ready to create Java programs. In this tutorial we will be looking at declaring variables, loops and conditional statements, the naming convention in Java, access modifiers and how to comment your code. If you haven’t gone through that tutorial, I would stronglyContinue reading “Java Lesson 1 – The Basics”

Getting Started – Java

Java is one of the most popular languages in the world, due to its cross-platform nature and the ease of which its can be learned. It may not be as fast or as efficient as a language such as C or C++ but Java has many powerful features that make it a good starting languageContinue reading “Getting Started – Java”

Tutorials Incoming

What can you expect? Initial tutorials on this blog will be about programming, particular Java, but I will also branch out into Python, R, C, C++ and possibly others as time progresses. I will be uploading the tutorials to YouTube and detailing the tutorials in text form here. Hopefully I can help at least oneContinue reading “Tutorials Incoming”

Hi I’m Sam

A student at the University of Reading, studying an MSc in Advanced Computer Science. Graduated with a BSc in Computer Science with First-Class Honours from the University of Reading. Hello and welcome to the blog. I’m Sam and as stated above, I am a student at the University of Reading where I am currently studyingContinue reading “Hi I’m Sam”