An Intro to Java

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Workshop Objectives

• A high-level understanding of how different languages work
• De-mystify what a compiled language is
• How to set up your environment for Java
• Use docs and stackoverflow to learn a new language
• How to create, compile and run Java programs

What's in here?

• Terminology & Resources
• What is Java and how does it work
• Setup instructions
• An intro to some of Java's data types
• An intro to loops
• Fizzbuzz in Java
• An intro to TDD in Java using JUnit
• bonus: random links to interesting things

What's not in here?

• lots
• this workshop has a fairly narrow scope

Disclaimer 🚧

This is the first iteration of this workshop aka, if you spot typos, find great resources to add, simply make the change, open a PR, and slack me the link.

Feedback

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Let's start!