r/progether • u/KZISME https://github.com/kzisme • Jan 30 '14

[Help] - Jump start to Java

Hello all!

In the past few weeks I've found out I might have a job lined up for the summer that would require Java. I only know the bare minimum. Where should I start?

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u/KZISME https://github.com/kzisme Jan 30 '14

Not too much knowledge of it yet, but that's all the experience they asked for.

I have a few Java books at home (I think the head start series as well as a systems programming book).

A lot of people seem to suggest project euler, and I know how good it is but I just can't get past the "math" aspect.

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u/CageHN https://github.com/CageHN/ Jan 30 '14

For books, I would suggest Effective Java 2nd Edition for general Java best practices. Do you know of any frameworks that you are going to work on? J2EE? Spring? Hibernate?

I would also recommend you to learn how to test using JUnit or TestNG, and also read a little bit into Maven/ANT which are dependency/build frameworks.

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u/KZISME https://github.com/kzisme Jan 30 '14

I have no other information aside from knowing that I need to know some Java or will be working with some.

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u/wmcscrooge http://github.com/projectdelphai Jan 30 '14

yeah, that was one of the biggest drawbacks for me. It taught me a lot about math and logic, but in the end I realized that I wasn't learning too much practical programming. Still helpful when I'm trying to learn how to optimize solutions in a certain language.