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There's nothing wrong with learning Java. It's still a highly used language and it's still used in the industry. So I would classify it as still useful. If you want to learn it then go for it. Getting a head start on it should help you ace your classes in a year. Here are some tutorials

  • Look at the Java section in our forums resources thread
  • Get a 14-day free trial for Treehouse and use it to go through their "Java Basics" and "Java Objects" video courses
  • Get a 10-day free trial for lynda.com (linked with the LTT WAN Show sponsorship) and use it to learn some more Java (from watching videos as well). "Java Essential Training" and "Java Advanced Training" are two of the many courses you could take.

Your class will probably have you building your Java programs in command line or Eclipse. So you should get used to both of those. Personally, my favourite Java IDE is IntelliJ so give that a try too. You can get the community edition, or as a student, you can get the full ultimate edition for free. 

 

With all that said, don't neglect your C++ work. Getting better at C++ in your spare time will also help you out with your current courses.

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So I'm currently learning C++ in the college ,but I want to learn java 'cause it look fun & to learn it in the college I'll have to wait a year and everyone knows that a year is way too long -_- So is there a good youtube channel to watch or a reference website .. something like that

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Find a java project on github or something that interests you, download the sourcecode, download netbeans or eclipse, then start looking through the code changing things here and there, seeing what changes and if you don't understand something google it or ask the internet!

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Java ain't useful !?

 

The thing is, Java is an okay language but it's not the best at anything. It has a very friendly compiler and it's cross platform compatible, however so is C++ and C++ is much more effective. Java might have more inbuilt functionality but that is vastly overshadowed by C#.

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There's nothing wrong with learning Java. It's still a highly used language and it's still used in the industry. So I would classify it as still useful. If you want to learn it then go for it. Getting a head start on it should help you ace your classes in a year. Here are some tutorials

  • Look at the Java section in our forums resources thread
  • Get a 14-day free trial for Treehouse and use it to go through their "Java Basics" and "Java Objects" video courses
  • Get a 10-day free trial for lynda.com (linked with the LTT WAN Show sponsorship) and use it to learn some more Java (from watching videos as well). "Java Essential Training" and "Java Advanced Training" are two of the many courses you could take.

Your class will probably have you building your Java programs in command line or Eclipse. So you should get used to both of those. Personally, my favourite Java IDE is IntelliJ so give that a try too. You can get the community edition, or as a student, you can get the full ultimate edition for free. 

 

With all that said, don't neglect your C++ work. Getting better at C++ in your spare time will also help you out with your current courses.

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