User friendly Java books for beginners?

[Hi P]

It's easier for me to learn by reading a book than watching a video, upon a quick google search I found some and skimmed-through their pages.

 

Not what I was expecting at all, to say the least, they looked really complex.

 

Do you guys have any book suggestions with the following criteria?

 

Skill level: complete beginner

Java version: up to date or at least still relevant

Goal: basic fundamentals, syntax

Other: hand-held type of book if possible (as in, easy to understand, step by step)

 

Thank you

 

 

 

 

[Mira Yurizaki]

I haven't personally looked at any Java books, but if you need a place to get started: https://whatpixel.com/best-java-books/

[rcmaehl]

My suggestion: Start at easier languages such as Visual Basic then work into C++ followed by Java. OOP can be hard to dive right into.

[DrMacintosh]

Java is the first language I'm learning and tbh it's not that bad. You just have to have the mindset. My class is using Zybooks and it is extremely user friendly. However it costs $70. Highly recommended for beginners. It's essentially unparalleled.  

[Maltego]

I would personally also pick some thing else as a first language, but like @DrMacintosh has said.. it still isn't that bad. The book by oracle is pretty good, it's called a beginners guide or some thing.  

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, Xeaoz said:

but like @DrMacintosh has said.. it still isn't that bad.

The best part is, if you can make it in Java as your first language, then you can be pretty confident in your abilities as a growing programmer. 

[wasab]

Watch YouTube. All programming books in my opinion are utter trash. Once you grapse the fundementals, the rest like the APIs can just be learned from googling stack overflow. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Honestly it isn't the language that makes a programmer good or bad. It's whether or not they understand the concepts and theory that the language was implementing. If you can pick up on that, then going to another language, at least those influenced by C and other older high level languages that were widely used, tend to be straight forward.

[Maltego]

1 minute ago, DrMacintosh said:

The best part is, if you can make it in Java as your first language, then you can be pretty confident in your abilities as a growing programmer. 

Yeah, I agree. I'm learning Java as a module on a course i'm doing, but as i'm working towards full stack web development, i'm using more Python and Javascript.