Education should not be a sacred cow, we are sure of that! It needs and can be changed. That's exactly what we did and developed a JavaRush programming course that is unlike any other online course. There are no long video lectures and a list of tasks that it is unclear who will check and how. But there is a clearly defined goal, special means for studying have been developed, and a result has been established that needs to be achieved.
Top 12 Features of JavaRush Lessons
Typically, online programming courses come in the form of textbooks or video tutorials. It's not like that with us. We created a series of short lessons on Java, filled them with practical tasks and provided “smart” tools for checking the correctness of the solution. And all this in the form of a consistent and integral course!
1. JavaRush is somewhat similar to a game. There are levels and "pumping"
Upgrading you as a programmer. These are not just Java lessons for beginners - they are an opportunity to consolidate the acquired knowledge in practice “here and now.” You give short lectures, then solve a problem there and receive a reward for it. This is logical and understandable. You will solve a wide variety of problems. The most common tasks are writing code to solve a problem. But besides them, you will need to learn to read other people’s code, fix errors in it, improve it (refactoring), and add new features.
These are not all JavaRush features, we have a lot of interesting things
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Sometimes you will be forced to watch interesting videos about IT specialists, and those who learn programming from scratch will find coding tasks useful. For those who advance far enough, big tasks await you, they are also mini-projects: by completing them, you will write several interesting programs that are more serious (small toys, online chat, and so on).
2. Java lessons, nothing more!
Java, and any other programming language, can take a very long time to learn. In order not to get buried in dense jungle at the very beginning of the journey, we removed from the course topics unnecessary for beginners, which are often filled with Java programming lessons for beginners . Only the essentials are left in JavaRush. And these are not empty words: this is the result of an analysis of hundreds of vacancies. So we claim that the course includes exactly the topics that a future Java Junior Developer needs to know in order to get a job. The process of becoming a Java Junior will take you anywhere from three months to one year, depending on how much time you devote to studying. It will be convenient to study at any time of the day or night: the site has a light and dark theme - choose any one.
Go to the “light side” (if you want, of course!). All people are different. Some people are comfortable working with light text on a dark background, while others feel comfortable working with light text on a dark background. We took into account the wishes of our users, and now you can switch to a light theme (“light background, dark text”) in any section of JavaRush!
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3. 500 mini-lectures and 1200+ practical problems.
There is a lot of practice in this course. Lots and lots of practice! The course contains 500 mini-lectures (these are short lessons on Java) and more than 1200 practical problems. The vast majority of the problems are small, but there are “thousands of them!” Solving them all will give you the minimum experience needed to get the hang of it and tackle more serious problems. In addition, the course contains so-called “big tasks” (essentially mini-projects) and useful videos.
4. Four quests, forty levels, tons of practical knowledge.
Where to start learning programming languages? How to master the basics of programming? JavaRush presents a variety of online courses for beginners in the field of IT development
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The course is divided into 4 quests, each quest is 10 levels that need to be completed. The first quest contains the basics of Java from scratch, the syntax of the language and a huge number of tasks on this topic. Among the problems, there are very simple ones that will help you master the material you have covered, and there are more difficult ones, and to solve them you will have to run ahead and Google them. There are also tasks of increased complexity for the most daring. You can “jump” to the next level only if you solve most of the problems at the current level. If some of them are not amenable, they can be safely postponed until later. So, if you make it to the end, you'll get about 500 hours of hands-on programming experience. This is a solid application for the successful work of Java Junior!
JavaSyntax quest
For beginners. In this quest, Java tasks and lessons will help you learn the basic language constructs of the language (variables, conditional statements, loops, methods, classes, basic information about collections and objects)
Java Core Quest
In this quest you will learn the basics of OOP, become familiar with serialization and method overloading
Java Multithreading Quest
Multithreading is the main word of this quest. But here we will talk not only about it, but also about the structure of the Object and String classes and much more. This quest, as well as the next one, can be studied simultaneously.
Quest Collections
Collections are to a Java programmer what dynamite is to a prospector. You need to know them, but it is important to understand how to use them. Also in this quest there is a lot of information about working with JSON, Git, RMI, DynamicProxy and a little about JavaScript
5. Online internship and interview preparation
Starting at JavaRush level 35, and even better after level 40, students can take a special online internship, during which they will receive useful Java lessons on advanced technologies and do a serious project that can be added to their resume. And at this stage, closer to the end of the training, our specialists will help you with drawing up a resume. You will also find various articles on employment and success stories of those who have already found work useful. These guys often write interesting materials for us and willingly share their successful and unsuccessful experiences with other students.
6. Solving problems where it is convenient.
You can solve problems and send them for review:
directly on the site. JavaRush is not just Java lessons for beginners with assignments. It is also an interactive environment for solving problems. Convenient: you analyze an example in lecture, and now you need to complete a very similar task. Such small tasks to reinforce the material can be done directly on the JavaRush website: for this we have developed the WebIDE tool;
To solve problems that require more time, we recommend using the professional development environment IntelliJ IDEA. To make it convenient for JavaRush students, we have created a functional plugin for this popular IDE. The plugin allows you to get the problem conditions in one click and just as easily and quickly send the solution for verification;
After sending for verification, the solution code you typed is synchronized if you work from different computers/tablets.
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7. Instant verification of solutions.
Students are familiar with the situation firsthand: the task is ready, but the teacher will not check it in any way. This is exactly how things are in face-to-face courses, where one teacher, who teaches Java programming lessons from scratch, teaches two dozen students at once (or even more) and he simply has no time to check the assignments of each of them. On JavaRush you learn about the correctness/error of a solution instantly. You:
write a solution in Java;
Click on the “check” button: your solution is sent to the JavaRush server!
a second - and you receive information about the correctness of your decision and recommendations in case of errors.
8. JavaRush recommendation system
It is very difficult for a beginner to catch logical errors that the compiler does not miss. Are you solving a problem, but don't know if the solution is right? No problem: the JavaRush recommendation system will indicate where the error is hidden in your solution.
9. Help page.
Even if the JavaRush recommendation system did not help you and you are stuck trying to solve some complex problem, take a look at the help page - this service will not leave you alone with the problem. One of the students or the JavaRush team will definitely help you.
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10. Groups based on interests and cities.
Community - interest groups where you can read articles from other students and industry professionals, write your own topics, participate in competitions, comment and discuss Java or programming-related topics.
In the course lectures, as well as in the group articles , you will find many links to other Java resources, books, and videos. This is no accident. The presentation of the material is organized in such a way as to develop the skill of searching for the necessary material on the Internet, which is necessary for every programmer. Have you found any good Java lessons from scratch that complement the JavaRush lectures? This is just great! The goal of JavaRush is to learn new knowledge and be able to apply it in practice.