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free/paid books to learn for beginners?

YouTube is full of free learning content.

use youtube or with free udemy courses

Andreyc said:

free/paid books to learn for beginners?

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This is a free mooc course by the University of Helsinki. Very organized and apt for beginners
https://java-programming.mooc.fi/
Official Java Tutorial
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
Paid, but very organized course
https://hyperskill.org/tracks/17
If you want to go the "learn for free" route, go through the mooc.fi course, build the projects and use the Offical docs as a reference (or secondary material atleast in the beginning). You may want to go through the "Getting Started" Trail of the docs first tho.

Once you are done with th course, move on to build some more projects. Maybe take inspiration from the projects on hyperskill website (you can see their project descriptions for free) and build them on your own.

If you go the paid route, hyperskill is end-to-end and seems very high quality. Haven't taken it personally but heard it's pretty good.

Andreyc said:

free/paid books to learn for beginners?

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The way I like to learn is through roadmaps, learn each bubble on YouTube/Google and then move on to the next.
This makes you to put the subjects you learn into use immediately.
One I found can be found @ roadmap.sh/java - I never used it but Kamran's roadmaps are very good
Best of luck in your learning.

I think the best way is to pick any of popular beginner books (gogole it and take what seems right for you) and study it for few days by reading and copying examples in that book (not just by looking at them, but actually write them yourself). After you finish that book, you will have enough knowledge to start a simple project and if you did all axamples from the book, you will have buch of self-made notes (because lets be honest - you won't remember everything you read about). Don't go into courses or bunch of tutorials. The best way to learn is to know basics and then do your own project and googling everything you need. I know what I'm saying, because I do it for living.

Internet is literally full of those java books.

Perhaps start with the Java for Dummies book. I really like their style of presentation in general. Totally forgot what book I read in the grad semesters (as u can probably guess, I hated Java like anything lol).

You could also check out free code camp, they have many tutorials and lessons, with thousands of exercises to later test your skills

Andreyc said:

free/paid books to learn for beginners?

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these are free, indept, and comprehensive for you: w3school, javatpoint, tutorialspoint, oracle and numerous websites are available for your growth and learning, also you can download free pdf books on java such as programming in java, how to program in java, and lots more depending on your research