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Creating Your First Java Program

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 3h 15m
Published
Clock icon Sep 12, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Finding the Best Loan Rates

    In this lab, you will be creating a few calculators, including a MortgageCalculator and a Best Loan Rate Finder. You will develop multiple command-line apps that can run from a single command.

    In this module you'll create a command-line program to return the best loan rates based on the loan term. ### Solution The solution can be found in the solution directory.

  2. Challenge

    Creating a Savings Calculator

    In this module you'll create a command-line program to return the net monthly savings given income and expenses.

  3. Challenge

    Creating a Mortgage Calculator

    In this module you'll create a command-line program to return the monthly mortgage payment given few required inputs.

  4. Challenge

    Creating One Finance App

    In this module you'll merge all the command-line apps into one.

  5. Challenge

    Handling Errors and Bad Inputs

    In this module you'll make your calculators safe against bad inputs.

Harit Himanshu is an engineer by profession with the deep interest in applying technologies to solve business problems. Harit is passionate about writing clean, modular, testable code and believes in automating almost everything.

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