Done with java in codecademy, what next?

[Guest]

So i finished the java course in codecademy and i don't really know what to do next, i try to find videos for begginers but they still seem pretty advanced, i did understand most of what the course taught me (got confused with the loops and such) but idk where to start learning more.

 

should i take another course in another page?

 

any video guide tutorials on how to make a very simple app with gui or something like that?

 

thanks for the help  

[aeroencychris]

What would you like to do in the world of comp sci?

Mobile, web, database, anything else, the choice is yours.

Java is really more desktop and Android apps.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, cdsboy2000 said:

What would you like to do in the world of comp sci?

Mobile, web, database, anything else, the choice is yours.

Java is really more desktop and Android apps.

i'd really like to make desktop apps in the future.

 

but for now i just wanna make something simple for the desktop.

 

music player, file manager, picture viewer, idk, are those simple?

or anything you'd reccomend me 

[aeroencychris]

Just now, PeloyGeek said:

i'd really like to make desktop apps in the future.

 

but for now i just wanna make something simple for the desktop.

 

music player, file manager, picture viewer, idk, are those simple?

or anything you'd reccomend me 

If you're making stuff for Windows then C# or C++ are good routes, very similar to Java. I wouldn't suggest investing too much time in learning Java since it's not the most efficient imo.

If you're gonna go Mac I would just learn Swift for the hell of it.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, cdsboy2000 said:

If you're making stuff for Windows then C# or C++ are good routes, very similar to Java. I wouldn't suggest investing too much time in learning Java since it's not the most efficient imo.

If you're gonna go Mac I would just learn Swift for the hell of it.

i hear a lot of opinions on java, some say its the future, some say its not the best.

 

but im learning java for now, hopefully more languages in the future if i become good enough.

 

but where could i find good tutorials on how to make stuff for windows? for begginers mainly

[Guest]

3 hours ago, PeloyGeek said:

i hear a lot of opinions on java, some say its the future, some say its not the best.

 

but im learning java for now, hopefully more languages in the future if i become good enough.

 

but where could i find good tutorials on how to make stuff for windows? for begginers mainly

Well for GUI stuff, I used a book. That may not be everyone's liking though. 

[Guest]

Just now, IAmLamp said:

Well for GUI stuff, I used a book. That may not be everyone's liking though. 

hmm i get distracted easily with books, more if its complicated.

 

got anything else that could help?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, PeloyGeek said:

hmm i get distracted easily with books, more if its complicated.

 

got anything else that could help?

That's literally all I used, maybe some YouTube tutorials? Not really sure what would be the best method for that. 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, IAmLamp said:

That's literally all I used, maybe some YouTube tutorials? Not really sure what would be the best method for that. 

ill keep on looking i guess, thanks 

[suicidalfranco]

check Coursera or Edx they usually have more in depth beginner courses and intermediate ones and advanced ones. Also since this is LTT check Lynda if you have the money to spend. There's also Udacity but they only have Java courses for Android so you might not be interested in it 

[Nuluvius]

14 hours ago, PeloyGeek said:

So i finished the java course in codecademy and i don't really know what to do next

You should begin learning the theory. Here's a list to keep you busy for a while:

• Dependency Injection (DI)
• Inversion of Control (IoC)
• Design Patterns
  • Pluralsight Library of Design Patterns
  • Ports and Adaptors/Hexagonal Architecture
  • Model View Controller (MVC)
  • Model View ViewModel (MVVM)
• Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion (SOLID)
• Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability (ACID)
• Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)
• Agile Software Development Methodology
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
• Programming Paradigms
• Comparison of Programming Paradigms

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Nuluvius said:

You should begin learning the theory. Here's a list to keep you busy for a while:

• Dependency Injection (DI)
• Inversion of Control (IoC)
• Design Patterns
  • Pluralsight Library of Design Patterns
  • Ports and Adaptors/Hexagonal Architecture
  • Model View Controller (MVC)
  • Model View ViewModel (MVVM)
• Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion (SOLID)
• Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability (ACID)
• Keep It Simple, Stupid (KISS)
• Agile Software Development Methodology
• Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
• Programming Paradigms
• Comparison of Programming Paradigms

THANK YOU

[Akolyte]

8 hours ago, PeloyGeek said:

THANK YOU

Do what @Nuluvius suggested.  I also suggest learning about computer science as a whole too and determine what area you want to go into.  I know a software engineer who went to electronics and then to management and then to networking and then went back to software engineering and he now rights server software for IBM. 

 

Explore to your hearts content and find what you want to do.  Because you might not like making desktop apps, who knows.  It really depends on what you enjoy and I just wanted to say that Java can lead you many places.  I'm in high school right now, and we use a program called Excorsiser which we use for creating Finite State Machines from Formal Language. 

 

But that's not the point, the point is that it is written in Java and even though it's really basic it is an example of writing desktop apps in Java.  If you want to write desktop apps, try and write an awesome text editor, or a utility to fix a problem you have.

 

EDIT: Forgot to add the link to it! http://www.swisseduc.ch/compscience/exorciser/index.html  

[Gachr]

Well, yet another person whom Codecademy made more confused than anything...

 

 

^ This is a very condensed Java tutorial, covering most of the syntax in a short while. Check this guy's channel out, he's got lots of Java content.

If you're still confused about the basics, the tutorialspoint Java tutorial explains everything really well.