Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
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Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
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Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#2Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java.
When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then.
What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#3Top point talks about targeting data scientists. It would be interesting seeing what that means in their mind.
Based on the current state of affairs oracle and the jvm seem very far away from mainstream ML
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#4Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24142626
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#5Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#6Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
You'll find many good resources on https://www.baeldung.com/ it regularly comes up in search results and pages appear maintained and for modern versions of libraries.
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#7Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
> A lot must have happened since then.
Not really. That’s the point of Java. It’s stable.
Check the Wikipedia page on Java history to see the handful of new features then just look for tutorials on those that you need to use. Most of these features are things you can pick up as you go.
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#8Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
I recommend Effective Java, the third edition is updated for Java 9 I believe and Java Concurrency in Practice for the core parts of the language.
For Spring, Jakarta EE, Micronaut or Quarkus the docs of their respective websites is enough.
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#9Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
Everything is OpenJDK now, forget oracle. AWS put out LTS JRE's etc.
Try and get your employer to pay for a jetbrains IDE, IntelliJ IDEA.
Use Maven for builds. It's simple-ish.
Use Spring for frameworks. Everything's been done so you wont be first with any problems here.
And all the stuff from 12 years ago is probably what people know and do, so it's still on point.
No one does inheritance anymore composition's all the rage. Not passing judgement on that, it's just a thing.
Re: Java Turns 25 – Whats Next? [pdf]
#10Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java. When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then. What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
I was in a similar position a couple of years ago. I recommend the book "Core Java for the Impatient" by Cay Horstmann. The printed version is for Java 8 but there is a preview available for Java 11. It's a concise book but it covers all the important bits.
Regarding the "bite the bullet". I was also a bit afraid, but Java is a great language. Yes, it's a bit verbose but that's compensated by its amazing tooling, specially IntelliJ IDEA.