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BuzzerBee

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Good Resources for Learning Java?

I'm planning on learning Java over the summer, and I know there are a bunch of handy online resources to get me started, but I wanted to take the forum's opinion first.

What do you think are the best resources to begin learning? What IDE do you use? etc.

EDIT: I already know C# so I'm not a total beginner to programming in general, and I know the two languages are quite similar

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JadElClemens

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Re: Good Resources for Learning Java?

I learned from a book, SAMS Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours. It was a pretty good resource that would've ended up teaching me even more had I gotten past hour 15. If you wanted free, Bucky (thenewboston) and Derek Banas on youtube both have pretty good Java tutorials. I liked Derek's better, but I still couldn't follow very well because short of copying what he's doing in the video, you get little to no experience applying the things you're learning to actual programming.

I'd also suggest looking up some Java programming challenges. They're typically pretty hard, meant to challenge more advanced programmers, but there are websites meant to help even newbies.

As for my IDE, I use IntelliJ IDEA.

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Re: Good Resources for Learning Java?

I'm planning on learning Java over the summer, and I know there are a bunch of handy online resources to get me started, but I wanted to take the forum's opinion first.

What do you think are the best resources to begin learning? What IDE do you use? etc.

EDIT: I already know C# so I'm not a total beginner to programming in general, and I know the two languages are quite similar

oh awzome someone else doing the same as I

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realmaster42

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Joined: 2015-02-20

Posts: 1,380

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Re: Good Resources for Learning Java?

I learned from a book, SAMS Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours. It was a pretty good resource that would've ended up teaching me even more had I gotten past hour 15. If you wanted free, Bucky (thenewboston) and Derek Banas on youtube both have pretty good Java tutorials. I liked Derek's better, but I still couldn't follow very well because short of copying what he's doing in the video, you get little to no experience applying the things you're learning to actual programming.

I'd also suggest looking up some Java programming challenges. They're typically pretty hard, meant to challenge more advanced programmers, but there are websites meant to help even newbies.

As for my IDE, I use IntelliJ IDEA.

i use eclipse.

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ewoke

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Joined: 2015-02-20

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Re: Good Resources for Learning Java?

BlueJ masterrace*sarcasm off*

its very C# alike, i used android studio as IDE wich doesnt really count i guess

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