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Hi everyone, I'm currently a sophomore in high school and planning to take AP CompSci A in my senior year. I want to know what is the best way to learn Java from now until next September?

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I can't recommend a specific method as I've only learned coding through University courses rather than on my own so far. But I can recommend an IDE to use and that's IntelliJ IDEA. I absolutely love it.

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Just now, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I can't recommend a specific method as I've only learned coding through University courses rather than on my own so far. But I can recommend an IDE to use and that's IntelliJ. I absolutely love it.

IntelliJ, webstorm, same thing, atom.io is a free IDE that's really good - but it takes a lot of tinkering

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Codecademy has a 3 hour Java tutorial.

 

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as said below me hacker rank is a respectable site and many advise it.

Codecademy may be a start but it may also be on hacker rank. It tests you much more.

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5 minutes ago, fpo said:

Codecademy has a 3 hour Java tutorial.

Please, please please don't use codacademy.

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Standford lecture videos

 

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1 hour ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Standford lecture videos

 

This isn't just a good way to learn Java, this will teach you a lot of other fundamentals in computer science and programming as well. Highly recommend it. There are also recorded MIT lectures on YT worth checking out but the Stanford series is a great start.

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While people are recommending IDE's i would suggest taking a look at Eclipse Neon. It has good user friendly UI and a great debugger.

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On 3/2/2017 at 8:29 PM, PoisonousRock said:

Hi everyone, I'm currently a sophomore in high school and planning to take AP CompSci A in my senior year. I want to know what is the best way to learn Java from now until next September?

For your IDE, just ask people at your school what the teacher tells them to use.

 

In the end, most demonstrations will be done using that IDE, and some IDE specific features may not be on others.

 

On 3/2/2017 at 8:49 PM, fpo said:

Codecademy has a 3 hour Java tutorial.

 

EDIT:
as said below me hacker rank is a respectable site and many advise it.

Codecademy may be a start but it may also be on hacker rank. It tests you much more.

Codeacademy's actual course isn't that terrible, but the real problem is their freemium business model that they put into effect a few years ago.

Want to know which mobo to get?

Spoiler

Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

chEcK iNsidE sPoilEr fOr a tREat!

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