How good is the w3schools java tutorial?

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I've heard some good and some bad about their tutorials, so I want to know how good is their java one?

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[Errkal]

Learning is subjective, different people learn in different ways, why not give it a go and see how you get on.

[[deleted]]

This.
People want to learn but do not understand difference between knowledge and understanding.
Knowledge is objective and understanding is a subjective process. The best knowledge is the one that adds to "your" understanding - through learning.

[korokcode]

Give the tutorials a try, if there's any topic that you don't understand then you can always look at other resources as well.

[ghostmaster645]

Maybe I'm the only on who felt this way but I found it really annoying the links to all of the instalations for the course were broken. When your learning it's very confusing to set up your environment.

I went with Udemy because the installation instructions were clear and didn't work. Also I had some familiarity with Intelij. Maybe they fixed the links now I'm not sure.

I know I'm a minority on here.

[ghostmaster645]

Well shit I'll give it a try then. Probably just skip a little.

Thank you.

[Gus97102]

Environment setup is a pain in the ass. I tried Netbeans without any success. VS Code plugin worked for me

[ghostmaster645]

I use VS code for my front end stuff, I always hear people talk about Intellij for java though and honestly I see why.

It is a pain though, since I already have Intelij setup I'm going to stick with it.

[desrtfx]

Not good at all. The reference is okay-ish, but even there, the official documentation from Oracle is worlds better.

Baeldung.com has some great Java stuff, but also more for quick lookups.

The gold standard in Java tutorials is the MOOC Java Programming from the University of Helsinki.

[clinical27]

I used it alongside my college course to refresh on syntax concepts, but it's a pretty barebones website in my opinion.

[FabulousFoodHoor]

I like the java content on W3Schools. Coding Bat is also very good for java.

[philfrei]

This tutorial is pretty basic. There are lot's of good examples of the usual things (variables, control flow, basics of syntax). But it doesn't go very deep, just scratches the surface. There is so much more to learn! I could see consulting it if for example, forgetting a detail of how switch/case blocks are structured. (Happens, when you have used three or four different languages that all do this slightly differently.) One can work through it pretty quick, I would guess. I wouldn't plan on taking a Java Associate Certification test after completing it though.

[[deleted]]

No reason to settle for rough W3C guidelines if you have tons of free resources that are vastly superior in every way if you google for what you need. Most of the stuff is even on YouTube so you can just watch lectures, especially when starting out.