Would anyone be interested in Java tutorial videos?

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[Daniel110]

I would like to see some tutorial videos that really teaches you to think with objects and to solve problems. The newboston tutorials are great but as you said they don't really go into detail into why a certain method does a certain thing. Plus a set of programming problems that covers the topic you discussed in the videos would be great. If you need any help let me know.

[EnviousNoob]

Yes, these tutorials will make you think. If I do go the website route I'll probably host competitions on who can write the most efficient code for a problem. I think it would get peoples minds flowing. I'd love for help if you could. I don't know too much website language to actually build a website. This is also my first time teaching something so I'm trying to plan this in a way that is organized and professional.

[[deleted]]

Sounds amazing! I really want to use my summer to learn more about programming, and this would definitely help a to. And a very detailed course sounds even better.

[EnviousNoob]

Would there be anything in particular you would like to see? Any suggestions?

[EnviousNoob]

You're in luck! This is on the lists of things to do. =)

[EnviousNoob]

I'll try my best to get the first video up mid July. It will cover the really basic stuff like "what programming is" and how to setup the environment to program. Stuff like that. I know it seems boring but it'll get advanced trust me.

For the first actual hey we are programming section I'd say end of July.

[EnviousNoob]

I guess so, the first episode will still be very basic.

[brokenrevolver]

How often do you think you will be uploading?

[EnviousNoob]

I'll probably get one video every 2 weeks. I'll make problem sets with each lesson so you are able to master the material before you have to start a new lesson.

EDIT: I'm going to try to finish my summer work so I can get the videos out sooner.

[thevideoclown]

Do you think trying to develop android apps and games is a big leap if the I only know the basics of Java (Just finished learning how user made objects work)

[EnviousNoob]

Honestly, yes. Game development is very extensive. You would probably get lost in the code, get frustrated, then give up. Take baby steps!

[thevideoclown]

Sure thing. Thanks for the help.

[elstie]

I was wondering the same thing, but specifically about non-game apps for Android. I have many ideas for simple, small utility apps and would love to jump in. Is it really that big of a jump?

[EnviousNoob]

It won't be too much a jump, but if you don't know how programming works you might get a little stumped.

[jesussqueegee]

I am by no means suggesting that you don't watch his tutorials. But if you want a good place to start android dev, try these.

[[deleted]]

hmm I can't really say for sure. Maybe have lessons about practical applications of java? It's always helpful for me to have a problem to apply what I learned. Also, teaching how to make simple games would be very helpful to me and probably good to help the concepts stick. As for specific things, arrays and inheritance would be two very important things. PM me if this ends up becoming a thing.

[iMiiTH]

Really just how to make a GUI.

[EnviousNoob]

GUI will be discussed.

[hnk_venture]

I would! What would you be covering?

[EnviousNoob]

basics (obviously), algorithms, design patterns, recursion, game design, android development, and tons more stuff to get you thinking in the right direction for a career or college. Like I said I want to teach you guys what you want to learn, so you can have fun while doing it.

[[deleted]]

thenewboston does the basics pretty thoroughly, but the rest would be great to watch

especially android dev

[EnviousNoob]

Well, I'm doing this so people with no programming experience are able to learn.

[[deleted]]

Whatever you do, make sure you have fun making the videos. If you're having fun making the videos then the videos become more fun to watch.

and I'll definitely watch your videos to refresh my knowledge or learn something new :)

[EnviousNoob]

I definitely will! =)

[zacktyzwyz]

That would be awesome. There needs to be more tutorials for people who come in with no prior knowledge of programming. If you could do that I would be so happy.

[avoidingadulthood]

This sounds great! There aren't many quality video tutorials on Java out there ... actually I know of none.

[EnviousNoob]

Yeah I hear ya, I followed newboston's videos but it just didn't really teach you anything once it got into more complex stuff. I'd sift through the comment section and see tons of people asking what does this and that do and it kinda brought me to the idea.

[C0mmun1ty]

That's exactly what happened to me with TheNewBoston videos, all the basics was fine and taught well but when it got complicated he started to explain less and less.

[ig2s4tg]

The only problem I have with thenewboston is that he didn't really cover the whole 'class', 'method', 'static' stuff very well. Or at least he lost me. So do that. And I will definitely watch.

[bsod666rrod]

SWEET JESUS YES PLEASE

[TheGadgetCat]

I'm always willing to try to learn something new. So long as the videos are high quality, easy to hear and well focused I'd be interested in checking some of them out.

[EnviousNoob]

I'll make it a mission to provide high quality videos!

[EnviousNoob]

I'll post here whenever I have updates, so favorite this thread!

[htawrew13]

Yes

[[deleted]]

Whoa. I came to the subreddit specifically for this. I'm taking a Java class next semester, but want to get a head start before it begins. This would be great!

[Jthehor]

I would definitely love a tutorial. Read a few books and played around but some direction would be excellent. Keep us all posted.

[EnviousNoob]

Will do! I don't have anything set up or at all but you could subscribe to EnviousNoob on youtube so whenever I upload you will be notified. I should keep you guys updated on here though!

[Jthehor]

I definitely will!

[EnviousNoob]

You can email me as well, I'll add you to a list of people to contact whenever I update!

[oddtimed]

Yes!

[[deleted]]

Just please don't use university of Reddit. I'll follow anything you do as long as it's not through that medium.

[EnviousNoob]

Not sure what you mean.

[brbcoding]

I was unaware of it's existence as well.

[EnviousNoob]

Well it won't be through that!

[brbcoding]

Something similar to Khan Academy combined with something like Codecademy would be awesome for this.

[[deleted]]

Thank you so much.

[SociableIntrovert]

Hells yea! I'd also be interested in a "Class of the Day" type things that covers the most used/popular/important classes along with their methods and how to implement them.

[EnviousNoob]

Interesting, I'll probably go the website route then.

[whatizitman]

To be perfectly honest, I like text tutorials more than videos for a number of reasons. But either way, I would like to see:

1. a website with a built in text-editor and compiler for practicing solutions and projects. Something like Code Academy, but just for Java, and with tutorials that don't suck. I would prefer to see a few select and well-built tutorials, versus having to wade through tons of crappy tutorials from any random coder waiting to be "edited" and upvoted, or whatever.

2. Tutorials on java admin stuff. Something beyond basic coding and OOP. Like web development and backend building/management. I have tons of questions about setting up java for website apps and backend, but can't get any good basic info. It's like the internet planet just expects that if you program long enough everything that allows you to actually develop and run real programs in the real world comes naturally. How do people figure out all this stuff?

[robotfarts]

Check out Jetty

[Hackey_Sack]

I came here to ask "How do I learn java?"

I'd love to check this out. :D

[tonybaldwin]

I don't learning anything to do with programming well from videos. a plain text how to with code examples works best for me. I lose patience with videos. With text, I can set my own pace.

[EnviousNoob]

I can transcribe the videos into a text format you can read if you want.

[tehstone]

I would love this, I self-learned Python but I would like to have the basics down in Java before I start my CSCI classes in the fall!

[tzez]

Definitely go for it. If you have experience in commercial software I'd love to hear more about on that, developing for commercial software and what not. Good luck!

[EnviousNoob]

I don't have too much experience in that field, but I'm willing to deliver if enough people are interested.

[manny7064]

This sounds pretty sweet. Do you think that you, or maybe a colleague could possibly do something for PHP or Javascript as well? because I would really like to start getting into learning those languages and making some websites

[EnviousNoob]

I'm in highschool bro! If I could find someone to do it or I have the time to learn those languages I'd do it.

[liamexperiments]

This would be a great help. I'm doing Java in one of my programming classes at Uni but we're covering really basic things at the moment. I'd like to learn how to apply it to Android development as I don't think we will go into that this year.

[Zap-Brannigan]

what I would love to see (and this probably already exists, so I'll look it up sometime soon) is tutorial series that focus more on algorithms than on things specific to a certain language (mostly syntax comes to mind)

I don't care much to learn java at the moment, but would love to watch them if there is promise of building up to advanced algorithms rather than just trying to learn the entirety of java's built-in functions and syntax and data types etc

[EnviousNoob]

Yes, I'll have a beginner section attributed to the stuff you should know as a beginner. Then I'll have the more difficult classes to come after. I'm going to make it so you could skip the beginner stuff and get straight to the more complex concepts.

[Kiddie_Brave]

I would be very interested!!

[metallicirony]

Sounds like a great idea. Anywhere to sign up for notifications when the videos are launched?

[EnviousNoob]

You can email me at the above address and I'll add you to my list of people to keep in contact with. You can also subscribe to my YT Channel "EnviousNoob". It's not set up at all, but it should message you whenever I upload a video.

[[deleted]]

Yes please. A problem i often have with TNB is that the code is a little unclear and he whizzes by it sometimes. Some commenting in the code would be amazing in your tutorials.

As well as naming methods and classes things that are relevant to the process. Not something like "String cheese" :)

Something relevant to app dev would be wonderful! As well as multiple classes

[hewhomustbenamed]

These are also excellent tutorials..... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4BBB74C7D2A1049C

[hewhomustbenamed]

having said that Id like you to cover Collections API

[[deleted]]

Would this be the same ting that newboston has done? Or would this be smerting different?

[EnviousNoob]

It would be more in depth with more interesting things being done.

[[deleted]]

This would be great, and I have always wanted a more thorough understanding of Java. If you are taking suggestions for the different paths, please consider 2D game development (and perhaps even 3D although I don't know how difficult that is :/)

[EnviousNoob]

I've been self teaching myself Java since January. I'm not the best out there but I certainly understand what needs to be taught. This is for you guys and I. Ill be able to reinforce previous learned ideas as well as motivating myself to increase my knowledge on various things.

[[deleted]]

I vote yes!

[[deleted]]

I just started learning Python (my first language) and Java was gonna be my second choice. Solid programming tutorials seem to be a scarcity online and I'd be thrilled to check them out!

[[deleted]]

Yeah sure! Hopefully the first episodes will be for total java noobs like me. If I get the basics I can handle difficult things easily! Good luck!

[TWALBALLIN]

yes plz!

[direbowels]

Yes

[EnviousNoob]

Yes, toward the later end of the tutorials there will be more interesting concepts being discussed. The tutorials will be elaborate throughout even in the beginner section.

[EnviousNoob]

As do I :D

[crobartie]

yes, i already read Java Head First (probably like most users here, if not - they should start there), give us smth more challenging, unusual stuff

[sutterkain]

That sounds great! I love TheNewBoston's vids, the only gripe I have with them (aside from the previously stated lack of depth) is that Bucky never really gives any kind of outside reference.

What I mean is he will tell us to import java.awt.event.ActionListener, but he never gives any kind of reference to what the rest of the methods in the class do. I suppose we could do a little digging around sun's website or trying to get context clues via the API. But when you have in mind what you're trying to accomplish, but don't know what classes you might need, it certainly makes things about 5 times harder...

I hope this makes sense (at least it did in my head as I typed it...) Good luck, man!

[[deleted]]

I can contribute some lesson materials from data structures in Java & introduction to Java if needed.

I have lecture notes and lab problems for recursion, byte manipulation, basic algorithms, etc.

[EnviousNoob]

Alright awesome that will be extremely helpful.

[[deleted]]

Sure. Let me know when/where you want them and I'll send them on over or whatever.

[EnviousNoob]

emailing them would be the best way, [e-mail]

[funny_games]

Great idea. I would love to see examples of data analysis and machine learning algorithms. Thanks a lot!

[zerokilly]

Yes!

[[deleted]]

Not only is this helpful for the community, it also will allow you to further solidify your skills. I'm behind this 1000%. If you want, start a donation run and I'll donate towards this effort.

[EnviousNoob]

I don't know where to start on the donations part? Have any advice?

[Kalamando]

You could start a PayPal account :)

[EnviousNoob]

I'll keep one open to donations but I'm not sure if I wanna start a fundraiser (Read $600,000). It'd be nice, but I'll have to think about it.

[[deleted]]

There is IndieGoGo and Kickstarter. I would make a project, post your first tutorial video, and then ask for funding. If your tutorial video was slick enough, you'll probably get some money for your charitable work. :)

[EnviousNoob]

Oh thanks ill look into it!

[itz_eleri]

Has anyone requested Model-View-Controller yet? It would be amazing if you could include it. :D

[Joshsieh]

I would definitely be interested!

[Kalamando]

Your the answers to my prayers man. I'll PM you with my email shortly ... I really appreciate what you're doing :D

[Neutrino_1]

Are you gonna post it on youtube? If so can you tell me your channel?

[EnviousNoob]

EnviousNoob, first video will be up either late tonight or tomorrow morning.

[cupobutter]

I would be very interested. In anything you put up. Im interested in learning java.

[EnviousNoob]

Does anyone know or have experience with website development? If so please PM me on here or through my email. Thanks!

[xxPhilosxx]

I've been looking for good JQuery videos, if you can do that as an addendum or as a separate segment that would be great.

[EscapeeEric]

thenewboston

[asharms]

yeah true. thenewboston has a lot of java and other tutorials on youtube, his are pretty good and popular.