JavaFX and Swing for Awesome Java UIs : From 0 to 1

About Course

•  

  • Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Java
  • Taught by a Stanford-educated, ex-Googler, husband-wife team
  • Hundreds of lines of source code with hundreds of lines of code - just download and open in your IDE
  • This course is a definitive guide to JavaFX: every important part of the framework is covered in great detail, with sophisticated examples and context
  • The course is a comprehensive guide to Swing: you will be able to build sophisticated, clean Swing apps, and employ every important technique.
  • The course is intensely practical, packed with dozens of examples and hundreds of lines of included source code.
  • The course is also quirky. The examples are irreverent. Lots of little touches: repetition, zooming out so we remember the big picture, active learning with plenty of quizzes. There’s also a peppy soundtrack, and art - all shown by studies to improve cognition and recall.

Curriculam

• Section 1: Why learn JavaFX and Swing?
  	Lecture 1	Introduction	05:02
  Section 2: Swing
  	Lecture 2	The Basic Idea of Swing	16:58
  	Lecture 3	The Mechanics of Swing I	08:18
  	Lecture 4	The Mechanics of Swing-II	18:35
  Section 3: JavaFX Introduced
  	Lecture 5	Contrasting JavaFX and Swing - I	11:01
  	Lecture 6	Contrasting JavaFX and Swing-II	10:16
  	Lecture 7	The Mechanics of JavaFX	04:21
  	Lecture 8	Properties and Bindings Introduced	11:20
  	Lecture 9	We are in sync : Properties and Bindings in action	04:13
  Section 4: Properties And Bindings
  	Lecture 10	Properties and Bindings: Digging Deeper	17:24
  	Lecture 11	Properties and Bindings: Observables, ChangeListeners and Other Interfaces	14:51
  	Lecture 12	JavaFX: Modeling Properties and Bindings	12:43
  	Lecture 13	JavaFX : Digging into Bindings	10:31
  	Lecture 14	The trick to JavaFX properties: Lazy Instantiation	17:57
  Section 5: FXML and SceneBuilder
  	Lecture 15	Complex UIs via FXML and SceneBuilder	11:49
  	Lecture 16	FXML Behind the Scenes : Linking to the controller	14:09
  	Lecture 17	FXML Behind the Scenes : Dependency Injection	15:40
  	Lecture 18	The Full Possibilities of FXML - I	15:14
  	Lecture 19	The Full Possibilities of FXML - II	12:20
  	Lecture 20	The Full Possibilities of FXML - III	05:24
  Section 6: Shapes and Drawing
  	Lecture 21	Drawing: Shapes and Nodes	16:39
  	Lecture 22	Drawing: Fonts and a Segue into Animated GIFs	16:31
  Section 7: Animation
  	Lecture 23	Animation: Timelines and Transitions	18:10
  	Lecture 24	Transitions Explored	13:46
  Section 8: Media
  	Lecture 25	JavaFX Media Support: Part-Lame, Part-Awesome	10:36
  	Lecture 26	JavaFX Media Support: Getting started with common operations	15:34
  	Lecture 27	Build your own Media Player - I	17:49
  	Lecture 28	Build your own Media Player - II	16:33
  Section 9: Charts and Tables
  	Lecture 29	JavaFX Charts and Tables - I	17:36
  	Lecture 30	JavaFX Charts and Tables - II	04:29
  	Lecture 31	Charts and Tables : An example - I	12:49
  	Lecture 32	Charts and Tables : An example - II	07:10
  Section 10: 3D
  	Lecture 33	3D Rendering : Introduction to 3D Rendering: Segue to Drawing in 2D	11:17
  	Lecture 34	Introduction to 3D Rendering	12:57
  	Lecture 35	3D Rendering: Getting our feet wet	10:24
  	Lecture 36	3D Animations: Timelines and Moving Cameras	05:34
  Section 11: Swing Practical Exercise
  	Lecture 37	A Serious Swing App: News Curation Browser - I	17:19
  	Lecture 38	A Serious Swing App: News Curation Browser - II	15:18
  	Lecture 39	A Serious Swing App: News Curation Browser - III	16:14
  	Lecture 40	A Serious Swing App: News Curation Browser - IV	17:45
  Section 12: JavaFX Practical Exercise
  	Lecture 41	A Serious JavaFX App: The News Curator - I	17:31
  	Lecture 42	A Serious JavaFX App: The News Curator - II	18:57
  Section 13: FXML Practical Exercise
  	Lecture 43	Building a Serious UI App with FXML and SceneBuilder: Snippet Browser - I	12:08
  	Lecture 44	Building a Serious UI App with FXML and SceneBuilder: Snippet Browser - II	07:49
  	Lecture 45	Building a Serious UI App with FXML and SceneBuilder: Snippet Browser - III	15:12
  Section 14: Properties and Bindings Practical Exercise
  	Lecture 46	Properties and Bindings: Coding examples	17:11
  	Lecture 47	A Zippier UI using Properties and Bindings: Snippet Browser with a Real-Time Pre	18:11

What included in this Course?

•  

  • JavaFX: JavaFX as the evolutionary successor of Swing; Javascript and CSS support; FXML and SceneBuilder; how FXML and Dependency Injection work; zippy synching with Properties and Bindings; 3D Animations; 2D Animations (Transitions and Timelines); Charting - for the first time in Java; Media support, and building a real Media Player; Image handling and animated GIF construction; multi-threading in JavaFX; plus all the standard stuff: menus, trees, browser controls;
  • Swing: Framework basics; JFrames, JPanels and JComponents; Menus and menu handling; Trees and their nuances; File choosers, buttons, browser controls
  • Design: The MVC Paradigm, Observer and Command Design Patterns; Dependency Injection via FXML

  Programming Drills (code-alongs, with source code included)

  • A News Curation app to summarise newspaper articles into a concise email snippet
  • Animated GIF generation, using Java Image libraries as well multi-threading support
  • A fully fledged Media Player to play MP3 and MP4 files; complex wiring up of UI elements to make sure the little details (volume control, position sliders) work right
  • 2D Animations to rival those available in Powerpoint and other presentation software
  • 3D Animations including moving cameras, rotation and transition of 3D shapes
  • Bubble Charts and Tables to represent revenue, market valuation and growth of a set of companies - a business app as good as Excel
  • Javascript and CSS examples that show how these incredibly powerful tools can be used inside a Java UI app
  • SceneBuilder and FXML support, so that design and implementation can be divvied up between designers and software engineers

  What you will get from this course?

  • Build sophisticated user interfaces in Java, both in JavaFX and in Swing
  • Use menus, trees, buttons, tables and all the important standard UI-building techniques - both in JavaFX and in Swing
  • Use Scenebuilder and FXML to effortlessly create UIs using dependency injection
  • Blur the lines between web and app development by using JavaScript and CSS
  • Build business apps with charts and tables that rival spreadsheets like MS-Excel
  • Leverage the power of Properties and Bindings to get the little details right
  • Build 3D animations in JavaFX
  • Use JavaFX Media support - build an entire, fully functional media player, and also know the limits of Java media capabilities
  • Understand the MVC paradigm and the observer and command patterns that underpin virtually all modern UI frameworks

Who should buy this course?

• • UI engineers looking for a definitive resource on JavaFX, the future of Java UI programming
  • UI engineers looking for a comprehensive first-principles guide to Swing, the most popular UI programming framework right now
  • Back-end engineers seeking a one-stop-shop course for building awesome front-ends
  • This course is not right for you if you are looking for a Programming 101 course. You should have a good grasp of programming, ideally in Java, to benefit from this course
  • This course is probably not right for you if you are a product manager or tech investor - this course is pretty much exclusively focused on the "how", not the "what"

  What are the requirements?

  • Programming expertise at the level of a Programming 101 Class, preferably in Java.