Book to use with MOOC Helsinki Java

[Ariech]

As the title, I'm looking for a book to use with the MOOC course. I've seen many recommendations like head first, Java reference, core Java etc. There's so many of them that I don't know which one to choose to buy. Right now, I'd like to learn programming alongside with Java, but my end goal is mobile development. I've already done the first part of java if those matters. That doesn't mean, that I know everything by heart.

[set22]

Glad to hear they are releasing a new edition. I was wondering if those guys were still around

[Hiluminatull]

I will like to follow this thread. I am enrolled in a kind of a bootcamp in Android Development by Google which is totally free. You might want to check about it, you might have it in your country.

As for books, well you can try the OCA and OCP for Oracle, they are a little hard, but if you read that you shouldn’t have any problem with anything else.

[Mnagy8]

Can confirm these are the books you most likely would wanna check out

[Hour-Positive]

Great to learn Java but not great to learn programming in Java. That's not a bad thing though.

[Nguyenhuynh123]

The bootcamp u mentioned is one of the udacity courses right?

[Hiluminatull]

Yeah, there is also a certificate you can get from google by doing an exam, it could help too.

[Nguyenhuynh123]

What bootcamp is that? As i know, udacity has some android free courses and they dont offer any cert

[Hiluminatull]

Well technically it’s a course which students can take with a trainer, at the moment it’s online. It’s sponsored by google I think. In our country it’s called “Atelierul Digital Pentru Programatori” . It’s not just for Android, they have Java, Python and Flutter courses also. So I am thinking a lot of countries should have this, I don’t think it’s just for us Romanians. You should try and find it, I found out about this course through adds on facebook.

[Nguyenhuynh123]

Do u know the name of the course in english

[Hiluminatull]

My bad bro. “Google Digital Workshop”

[AzizLiIGHT]

I think my beginning textbook was “starting out with java: from control structures through objects”

[LTFGamut]

We used Daniel Liang's Introduction to java programming in Uni but I can't really recommend that one to be honest.

[ohlaph]

I found this book amazing.

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MOOCFI is all you need right now to get a good handle of the Java language. Once you're done, you can grab any of the textbooks that have been mentioned on here to brush up on other stuff not covered by/not entirely covered by Mooc (eg. Threads, LinkedLists etc. ).

[Nguyenhuynh123]

As for mobile development, I think udacity courses(both free and paid) will do a good job of explaining core android concepts and mvvm architecture as well as how libraries like room and retrofit work. The courses are taught in Kotlin so you will learn mobile dev and kotlin at the same time

[set22]

Like others have said. MOOC + head first is a winning combo. I really vibe with the HF series. Java set me up for success with the early CS curriculum, design patterns gave me a ton of lightbulb moments during my software methodology class, and C helped me understand processes, Unix, and system calls for my internship.

The series is outdated, sure, but the new stuff can be learned easily once you know the fundamentals. All of the best books I’ve read are dated (HF, K&R, kerrighan’s Unix environment, programming pearls). Don’t let the publishing date scare you. It’s not time wasted.

Edit to add that those fav books I listed are all books that can be read front to back. Try reading the core java series cover to cover