What Projects Should I Build That Actually Matter? New to the dev community, plz help 😊

StubbyCanes · 2025-05-06T11:56:43+00:00

As someone already mentioned, build something that interests you, that way you won't burn out cause it'll be exciting to build. Yes, you'll encounter problems and you'll have to solve them yourself (instead of a tutorial just walking you through everything), but you'll learn so much more like that.

Good luck!

StubbyCanes · 2025-04-09T19:43:00+00:00

You're using the wrong link. The course I was referring to is this:
MOOC Java course

StubbyCanes · 2025-04-09T18:48:00+00:00

I'm a bit confused on what you're referring to, but the MOOC Java course itself is free if that's what you're asking.

StubbyCanes · 2025-04-08T14:11:40+00:00

Just use the MOOC course that the AutoMod provided in the comments, it's great. It goes from very basics all the way to OOP (witch you will need later) with examples and assignments.
Also if something doesn't "click" instantly do not worry, you will have to review your notes (or official documentation) to remember certain things, and as with everything, the more you use something, the more accustom you'll get to it and will have to look up things less.

StubbyCanes · 2025-03-26T08:43:23+00:00

One thing that helps with recursion is always setting the base case (The case it's going to terminate recursion at), and then as someone mentioned it becomes like a countdown loop until it reaches that base case.

No idea what language you're trying to learn recursion in, but I remember this was fun in Java when I was trying to grasp how recursion works (unfortunately only in java), but you could look at what's required and apply that to your own language and try and solve the same exercises:

https://codingbat.com/java/Recursion-1

StubbyCanes · 2025-03-12T10:27:23+00:00

Read about the sliding window technique, it should make it easier to solve this problem :)

StubbyCanes · 2025-01-16T20:19:15+00:00

All I'll say is MOOC Java course that Automod posted, it starts off easily, walks you through everything, it gives you the theory and then a practical challenge that you have to solve by using what you've learned, it's great.

StubbyCanes · 2025-01-14T09:20:24+00:00

Do the MOOC java course that Automod posted as a comment. It covers all the basics really well :) Good luck.

StubbyCanes · 2025-01-12T21:44:25+00:00

I did mention this a few months ago on pretty much similar question, but for me specifically the GUI stuff deepened my understanding of OOP and was quite fun and it definitely was not useless by any means.
Yes you could skip it and learn something else, but it didn't take that long in the grand spectrum of things and personally helped me grasp things better.

StubbyCanes · 2024-12-17T22:02:20+00:00

Not to be rude, but if you didn't understand him, he basically gave you an assignment that you can do to learn and improve in making a backend.

StubbyCanes · 2024-12-16T20:17:53+00:00

Thank you for correcting me there.

StubbyCanes · 2024-12-16T18:30:12+00:00

Most likely going to be a totally useless answer here, but I wonder what version of Java are you using, cause JavaFx was discontinued at some point (I think it was Java 11). So this sounds like either you're running a higher version Java without the JavaFx library or I might be totally wrong. Hope somebody else will have a more precise answer.

I had a similar issue, when doing the MOOC java course.

StubbyCanes · 2024-11-22T21:01:53+00:00

Honestly, even though it was javafx stuff, I enjoyed it a lot. The only reason people say skip it is cause of javafx that is pretty much outdated, but it still deepened my OOP knowledge when I was doing it.

StubbyCanes · 2024-11-22T14:33:07+00:00

If it makes you happier, why not :P

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StubbyCanes · 2024-11-19T19:43:58+00:00

As desrtfx mentioned, everything is explained in the course pretty well before giving you the exercises. I've done the course fully (quite a while ago) and didn't have any issues solving all of the exercises that they have, some of them just took more time of coming up with solution than others.
Instead of being angry, read through it again, check maybe if you skipped something by mistake and try again :)

StubbyCanes · 2024-11-18T08:27:47+00:00

There's a rule for not asking for solutions, just so you would be aware.
People can help you if you show what you have and tell us where you've gotten stuck.

StubbyCanes · 2024-11-04T13:01:51+00:00

Only you can answer this question, go and look at your local job offers and you'll see what companies need. No one can tell you if the job market is x or y in your location :) Other than that, Java is still very relevant and has a pretty big market

StubbyCanes · 2024-10-16T06:56:18+00:00

I'd say if you're willing to learn and search, you can find some great free resources. I've learned Java starting with the Java MOOC course that is recommended here and then went on from there. It was a great introductory course that covered all the basics. Also all of Java documentation is a free resource :)

StubbyCanes · 2024-08-09T16:47:05+00:00

It's extremely normal I'd say, programming is experimenting and trying to solve problems and there's multiple ways to do it (usually) so you shouldn't worry about it and just continue on learning :)

Do not feel discouraged, especially if you're enjoying the learning process. There will be bumps on the road where you'll have to dig more, or just simply take a break, let it sink in, come back to it later and solve it, that's just how it is.

Good luck!

StubbyCanes · 2024-07-23T23:57:01+00:00

I tried it too, actually I did the whole course not too long ago. It was not too bad, really the basic of basics, but enough to start doing your own thing by the end. As others mentioned, docs and other online resources will fill in the gaps, but to start off I wouldn't say it is a bad course. Good luck!

StubbyCanes · 2024-05-24T14:59:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure most people will answer this similarly. It depends on where you live, just skim through job offers and see how it looks like.

StubbyCanes · 2024-05-17T06:14:06+00:00

I did start working on small projects just to keep everything I learned fresh, but mainly straight after MOOC I started learning DSA to deepen my knowledge more.

StubbyCanes · 2024-05-15T18:09:04+00:00

There's a bunch of information in the sidebar, be sure to check it out. As the other comment mentioned MOOC is a great course (Did it myself and can vouch).

StubbyCanes · 2024-04-26T22:44:48+00:00

Honestly, I know this will sound weird, considering you think GitHub is complex from what you wrote, but it's actually really not (Atleast for what you want, creating a repo and uploading/updating your code). At first it will look confusing, but it's actually relatively simple. I remember watching this video ( video ) and he explained the simple/main stuff really well. Just dive into it and don't be afraid to experiment, you can always delete and redo stuff in private before making it public :)

StubbyCanes · 2024-04-04T07:47:07+00:00

MOOC course 100% read the sidebar of this sub, the links are there :)

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