Matt Thornfield

Matt Greencroft has been working as a professional IT trainer since 2013. His specialties are JavaEE, Android, Hadoop and NoSQL. Previously, he developed applications and websites for his clients in the business and finance sectors, many of which he still maintains.

videos by Matt Thornfield

Java Fundamentals

  • Course duration: 14h 30m

Java Fundamentals is your personal Java bootcamp. This liveVideo course is based on a well-established five-day live training program, updated and expanded by expert developer and trainer Matt Greencroft. This engaging course starts with the basics of Java programming and continues to build your skills to include advanced features like Lambda expressions, collections and streams, using databases, working with files, testing, and more. You’ll learn how to design programs from both the object-oriented and functional perspectives. As you go, Matt demonstrates his extensive Java knowledge, revealing interesting and unexpected details about the language that even experts might not have known! All the examples are practical and very relevant to your future career.

Angular Security and Deployment

  • Course duration: 3h 26m

Angular for Java Developers is a five course series that teaches Java programmers how to use Angular and JavaScript to build applications that are maintainable, testable, and secure. In Part Five, you’ll implement vital security to keep your front end and API connection safe from attack, and deploy your application to production. You’ll learn about Login and Route Guards, authenticating users via REST, communicating securely using JWTs and how to survive a browser refresh.

Connecting Angular to a REST Back End

  • Course duration: 3h 38m

Angular for Java Developers is a five course series that teaches Java programmers how to use Angular and JavaScript to build applications that are maintainable, testable, and secure. In Part Four, you’ll connect your front end to a back end system using REST. You’ll learn about environments, creating, configuring and testing a Spring Boot based REST API, and how to implement REST from Angular.

Building a Real Site with Angular

  • Course duration: 5h 11m

Angular for Java Developers is a five course series that teaches Java programmers how to use Angular and JavaScript to build applications that are maintainable, testable, and secure. In Part Three, you’ll build a fully responsive, fully functioning Angular frontend. You’ll learn about routing, the concepts of Data, Models and Views, and how to programmatically add controls with reactive forms.

Angular with TypeScript

  • Course duration: 3h 13m

Angular for Java Developers is a five-part course that teaches Java programmers how to use Angular and JavaScript to build applications that are maintainable, testable, and secure. In this Part Two, you’ll get to grips with TypeScript, the primary language for writing Angular apps. You’ll learn about classes and objects, how to use TypeScript for dependency injection, and how to write unit tests to ensure your apps are bug free!

Creating a Simple Angular App

  • Course duration: 2h 48m

Angular for Java Developers is a five-part course that teaches Java programmers how to use Angular and JavaScript to build applications that are maintainable, testable, and secure. In Part One, you’ll get to grips with how Angular works, what an Angular application looks like, and get started by creating your first simple Angular app. The video lays the groundwork for the case study example app you’ll build throughout all five videos, the architecture of Angular applications, as well as creating your own custom components.

Building Spring Boot Applications with the Kotlin Programming Language

  • Course duration: 7h 51m

Building Spring Boot Applications with the Kotlin Programming Language teaches you to write clean, concise, easily maintainable Kotlin code using Spring Boot. Watch and learn as Kotlin expert Matt Greencroft explains Kotlin syntax and its automatic benefits. You’ll explore Kotlin features such as immutable variables, null-safety operators, data classes, templates, and top level functions. Then, you’ll discover the design approaches that make the most of the Spring and Kotlin combination, including using Spring Boot’s Hibernate framework and the Thymeleaf template engine.

You’ll dive into functional programming and reflection, and you’ll reinforce your learning with lots of helpful examples. Throughout the course, you’ll incorporate your new skills by building a real world theater booking system! With this value-rich visual learning experience, you’ll be more productive and—happier!—as you confidently create amazing, robust applications with Kotlin!