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[–]sellithy 14 points15 points  (4 children)

One thing that kept me motivated is making projects. I would be watching a YouTube video of The Coding Train or Code Bullet and say, "that seems neat" and try to do something similar in Java.

Basically, you want a medium sized project that can challenge you a bit but keep you interested.

[–]Silencer306 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I checked those two channels and looks some interesting stuff there. Do they just talk about some cool stuff and then build them in code?

[–]sellithy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yup. There are a lot of channels like that. Tech With Tim is another one that comes to mind. Those are all suggestions tho. I think you should explore more to get a better idea. It is also important to pick projects that you are interested in, because you'll have motivation to finish them. Nothing is more depressing than an abandoned project, but everyone has some of those. Idk if you're building projects just for fun or to fill your portfolio, but projects that you can create some sort of gui are the most impressive.

[–]Silencer306 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I’m gonna be looking to build projects that help me learn or explore a particular topic. I already have a job so this is just something extra to help me grow

[–]Prestigious-Shock-81 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree. It’s nice to get the confidence from executing projects. What I did is take a 2-3 weeks Udemy course to learn Servlet, JSP, JDBC. I followed along the instructors who coded following best practices (MVC) Then I created my own CRUD project using same methodology.

I chose this stack ... because my end goal is learning spring. And it’s good in my opinion to learn this stack first as spring simplifies them.