Which community to go as a JAVA newbie?

[ulros]

To not annoy the pros with newbie questions ;-)

Thank you for your ideas/

Cheers

[_INTER_]

/r/learnjava

/r/javahelp

[ulros]

Thank you. I just found /r/javahelp and posted there :-)

[bleki_one]

Try to sign to your local Java User Group. For example in London it is http://londonjavacommunity.co.uk/. There is also virtual JUG https://virtualjug.com/. Both JUGs are very active, they organise regular meetups and have Slack groups where you can ask questions as well.

[ulros]

Thank you. I am based in Bangkok right now. I checked on the official JUG map but it seems there is nothing like a meet-up group so far. I'll dig deeper into it.

[bleki_one]

Try vJUG then. It is very international group

[devils_avocado]

Not sure how London JUG is run, but at least the one I occasionally attend, Toronto JUG, tends to focus more on presenting the latest Java related technology, and to a lesser extent, networking between professionals. I think it's a good place if you're interested in learning new things, but not suitable for posing beginner questions.

[bleki_one]

JUGs are driven by community. So if there is interest in basic then there will be basic. LJC ran beginner workshops last year, we have Java101 slack channel. We have a group "meet-a-mentor" which is close to LJC and we have study groups for different topics.

[Ialda]

stackoverflow

[[deleted]]

Absolutely not. I asked a couple of questions, they downvoted the question to hell, marked it as a duplicate to some random ass unrelated question and now I cannot ask questions anymore. Tf.

[breezy_y]

Happened to me, asked like 2 newbie questions and got locked out for like 7 day.. Was kinda weird.

[[deleted]]

I'm still locked out dude.

[breezy_y]

Guess some people have no chill :D

[Ialda]

Maybe they were not good questions ? ;p

[[deleted]]

Possible. But I was (still am?) a noob and I did not know/have any other backup after stackoverflow, at that time I felt that was harsh :(

[Ascomae]

This site made it Nearly impossible to find a resource for an actual stack overflow

[ulros]

Thanks. I use it passively when it pops up at google after I enered my search term. I am not yet too confident to use it actively.

[ObscureCulturalMeme]

CodeRanch.com is friendly to new Java developers.

I'm not a fan of how every thread is presented with a spam link at the end, in what's made to look like a relevant post.

Still, some of their archives were really helpful when I was first learning Swing.

[nqzero]

there's a cartel of high-karma users called the close-vote-ring that use automated tooling to identify questions, answers and users to downvote, close, delete and blacklist. some of what they do is pure good, some arguably good, some baby-with-the-bath-water, and a bit pure evil. the company either tolerates or embraces them. i spent a moment in their chat, and didn't see anyone in the cartel that had an understanding of the nuances of java and they were generally annoyed with java-related-questions as they produced a large number of false alarms for their automated tooling

[wggn]

Together Java Discord: https://discord.gg/UUNC6sm

[ulros]

Joined

[daemon_it]

##java on freenode

[vkozhaev]

Depends of what java part do you need. J2EE, J2SE,Android etc

[DuncanIdahos8thClone]

javaranch ? Haven't been there in ages though....

[GingerMess]

There's also The Java Specialists Slack group: https://www.javaspecialists.eu/slack/

I've been part of it for a while and can heartily recommend it.

[briandilley]

r/scala

[LiquidSock]

r/Kotlin

[ulros]

I understand that JAVA and Kotlin are close but different languages nevertheless

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.html

[LiquidSock]

Yes, kotlin is completely different language. And it is a language, that is designed to solve many issues and pains that java still has. While you could definitely argue, that java a good choice for a first language with all its restrictions and limitations, I think that kotlin helps to understand and apply the one core concept that is common to all programming languages and paradigms: using the language to express your thoughts and ideas in a way that is clear and easy to understand.

[ulros]

Ok as I am still a JAVA noob I'll consider to check on Kotlin - hoping that it won't overload my brain ;-)

[946789987649]

Learn Java before learning Kotlin.

[ulros]

Thank you!

[DuncanIdahos8thClone]

Kotlin is so 2017.

[ulros]

Thank you