Java for beginners

[kahraman20]

Hi,

 

I would like learrn Java for myself and for classes on school. 
Where should i start  like which books and a which videos. 

 

 

[themaniac]

2 minutes ago, kahraman20 said:

Hi,

 

I would like learrn Java for myself and for classes on school. 
Where should i start  like which books and a which videos. 

 

 

try khan academy or code academy, for books dont know, for videos dont know

[afyeung]

31 minutes ago, kahraman20 said:

Hi,

 

I would like learrn Java for myself and for classes on school. 
Where should i start  like which books and a which videos. 

 

 

Oracle has very good tutorials. There's also a lot of interactive sites as well. For books, I read a book by John Smiley, I forgot the name, but it was very useful.

[jslowik]

If you like books, Head First Java is a good one, or Starting Out With Java: Early Objects is the one I used. Both good reads with a lot of good examples to follow.

[Gachr]

3 hours ago, themaniac said:

try khan academy or code academy, for books dont know, for videos dont know

 

 

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[jslowik]

2 hours ago, cptavim said:

Then what should people use that is free. The reason people use those websites is because they don't want to buy books or pay for classes.

Maybe YouTube? I can't think of many free resources. Head First Java is usually less than $30 USD. I'd definitely recommend that as a starting point.

[Komorebi4stein]

If you have some previous programming experience like in c++ then thinking in Java is a great book for beginners.

[Gachr]

11 hours ago, cptavim said:

Then what should people use that is free. The reason people use those websites is because they don't want to buy books or pay for classes.

Official docs, different tutorials, YouTube. Especially the first, since that's where people find all the info they need. I didn't see a tutorial for OpenGL on Codecademy for example.

You must be really inexperienced if you think that codecademy teaches you everything and that there are no other free resources.

[RobinFlikkema]

I used Object First with Java. It uses BlueJ but it really teaches all the basics

[Nineshadow]

16 hours ago, cptavim said:

Then what should people use that is free. The reason people use those websites is because they don't want to buy books or pay for classes.

Official documentation is the best thing ever.

Not for beginners though, that's where sites like Codecademy come in, and they do a somewhat decent job at teaching some really basic skills. There are other better ways for beginners to learn stuff though, Youtube is one example.

[Gachr]

1 hour ago, Nineshadow said:

Official documentation is the best thing ever.

Not for beginners though, that's where sites like Codecademy come in, and they do a somewhat decent job at teaching some really basic skills. There are other better ways for beginners to learn stuff though, Youtube is one example.

It depends on the docs, Python has wonderful beginner tutorial

[Nineshadow]

2 minutes ago, Gachr said:

It depends on the docs, Python has wonderful beginner tutorial

Yeah , Python does indeed have great beginner tutorials.

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[Markmjb]

To be honest, I've praised my university to actually start my IT student career in C#.  It's way more user friendly than Java, and the error handling in something like visual studio community edition is much more understandable than I've seen so far in Java (which i'm using now for half a year).

Just know that if you have 0 programming knowledge, Java might not be the best language to start it with.

I'm using Prentice Hall Core Java myself, but although they explain it pretty simple, I'm not entirely sure it's understandable with no prior knowledge.  

Also know you can find some books online in pdf form without paying for them. I'm not gonna link that stuff here because that would be bad for this forum. 

[Gachr]

10 hours ago, cptavim said:

Did I ever say that it teaches you everything? It's good for beginners and some documentation is confusing and hard to understand for beginners.

Then, how would you go about learning further, if (according to you) there are no other free resources and people don't want to pay for books and classes?

 

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