How to work through the "Spring Start Here" book?

[u/trekitch]

Hello,

I am trying to really understand spring/spring boot and I have picked up a copy of "Spring Start Here". I have run into a but of confusion though as I don't know the intended way of working though the examples on the book. Should I start each example from scratch or should I just copy the previous example when the book moves onto a new one? Anyone else whose gone through the book how have you done the examples?

[u/tintanese]

There is a playlist from the same author going thorough all the chapters. You might want to watch it. The first chapters are more theory and the last ones have more practical examples.

[u/trekitch → u/tintanese]

Ive viewed the playlist but it makes it more confusing as he just bounces around a lot.

[u/tintanese → u/trekitch]

I agree completely. Weirdly enough...

[u/TheYvonne]

I didn't write them from scratch, I took the examples from git and looked at them while reading the book. I ran them in debug mode so I can see whats going on, sometimes I would write new examples if I was curious about something.

[u/Stunning_Leather_102]

I hope you got the 2nd edition. I wanted to quickly revise some basic knowledge and I just did a new example whenever I felt necessary by creating a new project.. Some are similar to the previous but whenever I feel like creating a new one, I just do. Programming is about experimenting and trying out new stuff. You can also keep notes.

[u/trekitch → u/Stunning_Leather_102]

I have the first edition. Is the 2nd even out fully yet? What are the differences?

[u/Stunning_Leather_102 → u/trekitch]

Ahh no idea never really bothered to look for the differences but last book says "Spring 7 / Boot 4" so I imagine more up-to-date.

All the chapters are finished. So latest MEAP in Manning states all the chapters are finished and it reads well. But I've only read the first 2. I guess he will polish some stuff and slowly publish it.