Ask HN: Resources for learning Java? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by tjr » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 7:51 PM UTC

I've not done much Java for a while, but my most useful resources have been The Java Programming Language and The Java Developer's Almanac (especially the code samples, which I believe are available somewhere on java.sun.com).

Effective Java is also a great read for becoming a "better" Java programmer, but may or may not be useful to you right off the bat.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by zupatol » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 7:55 PM UTC

I learned a lot from the java tutorial

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by stanley » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 8:00 PM UTC

yan wrote: post #4

If you already have experience programming (which you do) try the following: First read the wikipedia page on the language. Download a medium-sized open source project, start at main() and try to understand what it does. Then, google for features/syntax you don't understand; read comments; have the api docs open; google for languages gotchas; google for techniques you don't understand. Once you do this enough to be c…

Thanks Yan

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by brl » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 8:11 PM UTC

You might like dzone.com which is a link/news site for developers that has a huge bias in favor of news about Java.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by johnyzee » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 8:39 PM UTC

Sun's own Java Trails online tutorials are very good. They cover a lot of ground with minimal blabbering (unlike books whose authors are paid by page count).

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 9:14 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

#17

Post by comster » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 9:15 PM UTC

Just goto any US university teaching Comp Sci

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

#18

Post by stuartk » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 9:17 PM UTC

Take a look at http://www.javapassion.com/

Some nice tutorials on several aspects of Java.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

#19

Post by krisneuharth » Tue, Dec 16, 2008, 11:05 PM UTC

Learning Java from Oreilly was a good start for me and continues to be a decent reference as time goes on.

Re: Ask HN: Resources for learning Java?

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Post by flashgordon » Wed, Dec 17, 2008, 12:20 AM UTC

On a different note why? no, really... apart from enterprise development why would you want the headache...

(by the way, ive done java since 98 up until couple of years ago when i switched to python...)