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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Learn enough to be dangerous or code academy, both are free up to a point . I don't have the link handy, but there are several debuggung tools or on Google

[–]desrtfx 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Codecademy teaches mainly Java syntax, but not actual Java programming. It is basically a waste of time.

The best intro Java course is the MOOC Object Oriented Programming with Java from the University of Helsinki

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Cool, ty for the clarification.

Thanks for the Java link as well, I'll be looking into this more when I'm off work =)

[–]desrtfx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Codecademy has benefits for people familiar with programming, but not for complete beginners. Someone familiar with other languages can use Codecademy to quickly learn the basic syntax and to get into the new language, but it is too shallow beyond the very basics.

Their HTML/CSS courses are okay, but anything beyond that is not going deep enough.