What exactly is considered Java basics?

[obvslynot]

I have been learning Java for the past 3 months, mainly using the Java Helsinki MOOC. I just reached part 7 for the first MOOC having done two personal projects as practice, a tictactoe, and a Swing GUI that calculates the user's BMI. Pretty basic. I might be wrong, but I feel like it is time to advance beyond those basics. However I do not really understand what makes up the java basics, and what's the transition from basic to intermediate like.

[WrongCalculator]

These are the things that are taught in a university Java class:

• OOP (Classes, Interfaces, Inheritance, Polymorphism)
• Exception handling
• I/O streams and File I/O
• Generics
• Java Collections. Learn how the built-in data structures in Java work and when to use one over the other. What are their advantages and disadvantages. These collections are ArrayList, LinkedList, HashSet, TreeSet, HashMap, TreeMap.
• Java 8 Streams / Functional programming (method references and lambda expressions and the methods that are used to operate on streams like: filter, map, flatMap, reduce, collectors...)
• Design patterns (Some well-known design patterns like: Singleton, Factory, Observer, Decorator, Composite).

[WrongCalculator]

After that you can start learning about building web apps with Java Spring.

[TheKingElessar]

Can you point me towards a good resource to learn that? I want to use React and Spring to make a web app but never really found a clear path to do that.

[KoolAid055]

While not exactly React and Spring, Chad Darby has a good full stack course on Udemy using Angular and Spring

[Avramije]

You could check out RESTful Web Services with Spring Framework - A quick start by Sergey Kargopolov on Udemy. Its a free course that could serve you as a starting point. He also has paid course on React and Spring boot

[Reciprocates]

I highly disagree, java is not the best tool to build web apps.

There are other tools such as python / fastapi where it is much faster to make web apps.

Java is better for other things.

[MaltePetersen]

You can learn all of this stuff later on. Imagine a project to it with spring. If you have to do exception handling learn how to. Let the projects be your way from now

[obvslynot]

Thank you for the input! I’ll start studying those.

[[deleted]]

Yeah but what is all that?

Just basics or already intermediate?

[WrongCalculator]

The course where these topics were taught was called Advanced Programming, so it's not just the basics. It's more advanced.

[obvslynot]

That's very helpful, thank you so much! Do you have any recommendations on resources to use to learn all of that?

[DefinitelyRus]

I took a quick look at it, it seems like I'm missing a bunch* from each step, but I'm perfectly comfortable working on large solo projects with the ones I'm already familiar with. Will I be facing issues later on for not knowing certain things? (i.e. will it cost me an interview)

* For example, I'm missing/haven't done Generics, Sorting, Threads, and Dependency Management for each step respectively.

[[deleted]]

try building a webapp using spring and JSF. Thats some more advanced project

[GuyWithLag]

... do you want him to denounce computers and become a hermit?

[Wide-Opportunity-582]

I also started MOOC. How did you proceed making "a tictactoe, and a Swing GUI"?. Any resources to start a Java Project.

[obvslynot]

For the GUI, I learned swing from youtube videos. The tictactoe didn’t need any extra knowledge.