Java Classes for High School Students in Chicago

This course guides students through game development with Java and graphic design. Students create animations to use inside thei arcade game that they learn to code themselves.

This course introduces students to the programming language Java. Students gain hands on experience with concepts like arrays, variables, and data types as they program console applications.

In this live online summer course, high schoolers and college students learn Java programming language and computer science fundamentals. As one of the most programming languages globally and a coding language taught in many university-level computer science study programs, Java is a great skill to have. This course starts up with Java basics and then progresses to more advanced topics, such as recursion and object-oriented programming. Students will work on projects and learn the material through hands-on training. The course prepares students for the AP Computer Science exam, giving them a head start on university-level computer programming classes.

Designed for young learners with some experience coding, this course gives students an introduction to the AP Computer Science A course. Students work with Java as they discover data types, classes, objects, and variables.

Students ages 13-17 can bring any level of coding skills to this course and increase their proficiency in computer programming. As they work in Java, students program Windows applications and work collaboratively to offer constructive feedback and debugging solutions.