Comprehensive, classroom-ready materials for teaching Spring Boot from absolute beginners to advanced practitioners. Includes written modules and runnable code.

What’s Inside

  • materials/ — 12 modules (markdown) from “What is Spring Boot?” through Testing, Actuator, Production, and Microservices.
  • code/ — Three runnable Spring Boot projects: beginner, intermediate, and advanced, aligned with the modules.

Curriculum at a Glance

Level Modules Topics
Beginner 1–4 What is Spring Boot, environment setup, first application, IoC/DI and core concepts
Intermediate 5–8 REST APIs, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, configuration and profiles
Advanced 9–12 Testing (unit, MockMvc), Actuator and monitoring, production deployment, microservices patterns

How to Use

  1. Teach in order — Follow modules 1–12 for a full course.
  2. Run the code — Use the projects in code/beginner, code/intermediate, and code/advanced (see code/README.md for how to run them).
  3. Exercises — Each module ends with exercises; use them for labs or homework.

Prerequisites

  • Java 17+ (Spring Boot 3.x). Spring Boot 4.x supports Java 17+ and newer JDKs.
  • Basic Java (classes, interfaces, collections). Maven or Gradle is helpful but not required (wrapper can be used).

Repository Layout

spring_boot/
├── README.md                 ← You are here
├── materials/
│   ├── README.md             ← Curriculum and learning path
│   ├── 01-beginner/          ← Modules 1–4
│   ├── 02-intermediate/      ← Modules 5–8
│   └── 03-advanced/          ← Modules 9–12
└── code/
    ├── README.md             ← How to run the code
    ├── beginner/             ← First app, IoC/DI
    ├── intermediate/         ← REST, JPA, Security, Config
    └── advanced/             ← Tests, Actuator, Docker, prod profile

These materials are for educational use. Spring Boot is under the Apache License 2.0.