• Introduction and presentation of data types
• Definition of OOP and its fundamental concepts
• Declaration and assignment of variables

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 1

• Importance of data output
• Using System.out.println and System.out.print
• String concatenation
• Changing font color
• Comments in code
• Rounding numbers, Part I

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 2

• Importance of data input
• Using the Scanner class
• Concept of packages in Java
• Declaration and usage of Scanner
• Difference between assignment and declaration of variables

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 3

• Importance of conditionals
• Basic structure of if
• else and else if statements
• Nested conditionals
• switch-case
• Comparison operators
• Logical operators

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 4

• Definition and importance of loops
• for loop
• while loop
• do-while loop
• break keyword
• continue keyword
• String manipulation: charAt() and length()

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 5

• Importance of random numbers
• Generating random numbers with Math.random
• Rounding numbers, Part II – Using Math.round()

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 6

• Definition and importance of arrays
• Declaration and creation of arrays
• Assigning values to arrays
• Traversing arrays with loops

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 7

• Definition and importance of 2D arrays
• Declaration, creation, and assignment of 2D arrays
• Accessing elements in a 2D array
• Initializing 2D arrays
• Traversing 2D arrays with nested loops
• Summing elements in a matrix
• Searching for specific elements in a matrix

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 8

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• LocalTime, LocalDate, and LocalDateTime classes
• Getting the current date, time, and date-time
• Creating specific dates and times
• Adding and subtracting days, hours
• Comparing dates
• Formatting dates
• Calculating the difference between dates

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 10

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• Importance of try and catch blocks
• Common exception types
• Basic structure of try-catch
• Multiple catch blocks
• The finally block

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 12

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• Importance of reading and writing files
• Importing classes to read files
• Reading text files
• Importing classes to write files
• Writing to text files

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 14

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• Importance of for-each loops
• Advantages and limitations of for-each
• Syntax of the for-each loop

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 16

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• Difference between methods and functions
• Access modifiers: public, protected, private
• Methods that return values vs void
• Creating and calling methods in the Main class
• Creating and calling methods in other classes
• Difference between class and instance
• Difference between static and dynamic methods
• Creating objects and using constructors
• Defining getter and setter methods

Practice problems to reinforce concepts from Chapter 19

• Using our knowledge to move forward in the story

• Ending and farewell