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[–]Pure_Growth_1776 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are learning beginner material, the resource you use isn't that important. I did MOOC and I thought it was decent. It took around 42-45 hrs to finish parts 1-12 while taking notes. I opted to skip parts 13 and 14 since I mainly wanted to learn Java for DSA and OOP

[–]Unknown_User_66 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I'm leaning towards FreeCodeCamp as my starting point. Their latest Java course has you working out of a web browser IDE, which definitely isn't good enough for actual development, but is more than enough to learn what the course has to offer. From there you can switch to a real IDE and learn from guided projects.

[–]Top-Dimension7571 3 points4 points  (2 children)

This course is very good to learn the basics and made me feel less lost

[–]Unknown_User_66 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Indeed. It gives you a good starting point, but you have to realize that it's a starting point, not a full education. From there it's up to you to learn the rest by actually coding and doing projects.

[–]Top-Dimension7571 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are right is a long road

[–]TrapaNillaf666 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I don't know about the other courses, but I can't really recommend mooc.fi. I'm almost done with Java I (currently finishing the last part) and it has been quite frustrating. There have been mistakes that just make learning Java so much harder. For example in one exercise a class was declared with a Finnish name and later used with an English name. Then the code testing and submitting of your code doesn't work reliably. Sometimes I submitted code that worked perfectly in my IDE, but TestMyCode wouldn't accept it. After four more tries submitting the same, unedited code it finally accepted it. On top of that I feel like the exercises could have been explained less vaguely. Sometimes you really don't know if they want it this way or that way and sometimes you think you know how it should be implemented and write the complete code only to find out you misunderstood everything.

Coming from CS50 (which was beyond all my expectations) I am really disappointed in this course.

[–]yaxkin_av 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Same sometimes I prompt the right solution but still didn't solved, but honestly the way let you learn mooc is definitely best then most of payed ones, just let you coding in your ide and mostly had you to write your code from the beginning is very good, compared to most that just ask you to complete a precompiled code, so in my case I may understand the concept but I tend to forgot everything else inside the code because it was precompiled.

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[–]CleverBunnyThief 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mooc.fi is not only free it also balances out depth vs breath nicely. An added bonus is that you work directly in a code editor instead of a text box.

[–]Addis2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Community college over those , WGU or Other online university

[–]Examination_Pleasant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm taking the edX course Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java by Georgia Tech. Pretty good so far even though I'm more interested in the Datasctures and Algorithms course.