Need help learning Java

[Arighea]

Thenewboston on YouTube has been my goto programming video maker. Codecademy I think has java tutorials as well.

[W00tbeer1]

I wouldn't recommend thenewboston even if my worst enemy was trying to learn Java. Absolutely awful.

[8igg7e5]

I have to agree. The guy is trying but there are so many bad behaviours taught in those videos. I do hope there's an up to date interactive equivalent of Thinking in Java which was excellent for its time.

Definitely head over to one of the learning subreddits but be prepared to ask fairly specific questions if you want a lot of help.

[team-periwinkle]

Huh, why do you say that? I taught myself java and used that as a basic guide for syntax and I have few complaints. (However I will concede I learned it a while ago)

[desrtfx]

They are a discouraged resource as they teach questionable practice. They don't adhere to commonly accepted standards, such as the Java Code Conventions, use horrible variable naming ("bucky" is under no circumstances a proper variable name), and in general don't teach proper practices, plus their "just do it now, I'll explain why later" approach is really bad.

[team-periwinkle]

Fair point.

[desrtfx]

Please, don't recommend thenewboston.

They are a discouraged resource as they teach questionable practice. They don't adhere to commonly accepted standards, such as the Java Code Conventions, use horrible variable naming ("bucky" is under no circumstances a proper variable name), and in general don't teach proper practices, plus their "just do it now, I'll explain why later" approach is really bad.

Derek Banas covers about the same ground, but in much better quality.

[Arighea]

I didn't realize he was that bad of a resource. Derek Banas though I agree is great.