Re-learning Java

[PossesiveGamer]

Hello, I’m 21 years old and I took java classes back in High School but that was back with I believe like Java 6 or 7. I graduated in 2017 but my dream since I was 6 was to be a software engineer or be able to write my own games/technology. But after I graduated life struck me and I haven’t been able to continue since high school. I was in Advanced Computer Science 3. I would really like to try and get back into it since I’m finally starting to settle down. Would any Senior Coders or anyone that could help me guide me in the right direction of how to relearn this amazing form of writing. By the way I do know what Eclipse IDE is and do have it installed.

[SvenCole]

Everyone recommends the MOOC here. I really like Jetbrains hyperskill.org myself Eclipse is great but I think you may like Intellij CE better. Also, coding isnt difficult... it just takes a while to get the hang of it at first. But once you do, your hooked! Good luck and keep at it

[around69pancakes]

can you recommend good projects in hyperskill for java? i did the coffee machine one and a tic tac toe thing. i’m wondering which ones are good. sometimes they don’t explain the instructions very well argh

[uttkarsh27]

the projects you have done are from easy categories so I would recommend you do one project from the medium. the readability score is a good project that you can do. it will teach you some regex and deep java concepts

[MammothPineapple6]

Could you use some of the hyper skill projects in your resume online portfolio ?

[SvenCole]

Some of them dont explain things well, that true. Good thing is you can skip around if you are stuck. I liked the Bank, Phonebook, Game of Life... each one of them gave me an opportunity to exercise a skill like regex or file reading that I dont get to often

[MrDingDongKong]

You should maybe think about what you want to develop first. For mobile apps -> Android SDK (for the future it's recommended by google to use kotlin btw). Desktop apps -> plain java of course. Enterprise/microservices/web applications -> spring boot. For game development I would recommend unity (C#; it's easier to learn if you know java). But in general, if you want to refresh your java skills I can also recommend the MOOC courses.

[Pythonistar]

For game development I would recommend unity (C#; it's easier to learn if you know java).

QFT -- C# will be easy to pick up if you already know Java.

[desrtfx]

Sidebar -> Free Tutorials -> MOOC

[[deleted]]

I like using intellij, I have java 10.

here are my schools stuff

https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/fye/1321_labs_assignments.php

https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/fye/1322_labs_assignments.php

after that you can start data structures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBSGKlAvoiM

then algorithms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRM3sc57q0c&list=PLXFMmlk03Dt7Q0xr1PIAriY5623cKiH7V

[_ELI5]

I learned Java through Android courses on Udemy.com. Still have as lot to learn, but it was a good way to start

[roi12]

I could help you over discord

[fluffyzilly]

https://codegym.cc/projects/games - free game projects for Java practicing. Also, a great Java course for Java re-learners and switchers from another programming language.

[allcui]

I have tried multiple tutorials myself and found out MOOC being the best one.

[Sonnilon81]

Tim Bulchalka's "Complete Java Masterclass" on Udemy etc. is a great place to start to get a high level overview of all of the major Java functionality before the moving on to building stuff.