About the Course

This course teaches you how to create desktop and web-based applications using Java Swing, Java's built-in user interface toolkit. Each tutorial is fairly self-contained; but we'll also build two complete applications step by step along the way, so you can choose either to work through the whole course or to dip in and out.

Among other things we'll look at nearly all Swing widgets, we'll take a look at JDBC for database access, the graphics API, model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, serialization for saving data, the listener-event model and even basic animation.

When you finish the course, you'll be an advanced Swing developer, capable of creating complex and scalable Swing GUI applications.

About John Purcell

After working as a software developer and contractor for over 14 years for a whole bunch of companies including CSC, Proquest, SPSS and AT&T in the UK and Netherlands, I decided to work full-time as a private software trainer. I now live in the beautiful city of Budapest, Hungary, from where I run the website http://www.caveofprogramming.com.

My Latest Projects

I'm currently putting together a site about physics and consciousness: www.QuantumLifetime.com. Over a period of many years, I've come to the conclusion that our minds take a far more active role in creating the "universe" than we usually care to imagine.

As you can see, a fledgling course on Java Design Patterns is available at the top of the page. There's also a new course on Perl, which I'm still adding to. I'm still considering creating a course on Java Spring, which I've had many requests for. There is the small problem that I need to learn it myself first.

Finally, if you're interested in learning Hungarian, which is said by some to be the world's fourth most difficult language, I'm creating a course on it together with a Hungarian friend of mine. The website is still under development and at the moment the course is free (but that will probably change). You can find it at www.learnhungarianfast.com.