Hey peeps! I might have an opportunity to get a job working with Java in the near future. I used Java when I was in University (5 years ago), not lots after... Any resources you’d recommend? I like demo & practice style of learning - I struggle reading books about coding, etc. I appreciate any help, concepts to look into, practicing exercises, videos...! Thanks in advance! :)

Bealdung. The best source for java info at the moment.

udemy.com/java-tutorial I come back to it every time for things like Sets and LinkedLists (I don't Java often so sometimes I need some reference).

@SortOfTested OK in spite of the funny name (it has dung in it 🤪) I might try these. are these classes better than udemy where all you do is watch some guy code? I want something more ACTIVE! Do you actually build a project on your own? Do you actually do a lot of programming and not just little multiple choice quizzies or “programming exercises” where all you do is call the same function shown in a vid but use different params or some other bland thing I can do half comatose. Yes I can always put a project up on github but I need assurance from someone that I’m not writing garbage. I just need know before I spend money

@d-fanelli
And I'd say skip all that, they just have great public docs and articles that work exceedingly well when coupled with site:www.baeldung.com in google queries.

It also allows you a single context that reliably has authoritative answers and filters out the Indian shit post keyword poisoning.

@SortOfTested thanks! Sorry, I didn’t get that last paragraph

@d-fanelli
India's sheer number of recently online users are pushing less than stellar results into the top of most tech search terms (amateur posting sites like geeks for geeks, low quality broken english whiteboard videos, copy pasta sites, et al) in most search engines.

It would have happened much sooner than this if china didn't effectively have it's own internet.

@SortOfTested hmmm so high quality content is being buried under low quality content. It often takes me over three search result pages to find something halfway decent. I often march on to ten pages if I don’t give up after five. Even if I find something promising after hours of digging, I naturally get turned off if it’s too far from page one.

Clean coding by Uncle Bob and Effective Java 3rd edition by Joshua Bloch.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I’ll check them out :D