This course helps students to develop basic problem-solving skills using the Java programming language. The topics includes API, IDE, JDK, numerical Data, primitive data type, short hand operators, cast value of one type to another type, selection statements, switch statements, break and continue statements, relational operators, logical operators, logical expressions, Boolean variable, Boolean expressions, repetition statements, nested loops, use of methods in the Math class. Course work includes writing basic programs in Java.