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Ask HN: What is the best resource to learn JAVA

by wpmoradi on 9/5/18, 4:15 PM with 10 comments

• by jryan49 on 9/6/18, 5:15 PM

  After you get some Java under your belt try Effective Java and Java Concurrency in Practice. Also I read the Javadocs for all the built in libraries like java.util [1] and the Javadocs for the stream api [2]. After that I read the language spec, and the memory model spec.

  1: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/package-... 2: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/stream/p...

• by mpetkevicius on 9/6/18, 8:01 AM

  I personally quite liked Java: The Complete Reference by Herbert Schildt – as the name suggests, it covers most of the topics relevant to Java developers, including some outdated ones.

  Head First Java by Kathy Sierra is also a decent introduction to the language, though much more limited and outdated.

  Oracle also has on-line Java tutorial which I regularly visit during development. However the content is more scattered than in a book.

• by brezenix on 9/5/18, 5:54 PM

  Introduction to Java Programming: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/java/J1a_Intro...

  There are more materials.

• by HiroshiSan on 9/5/18, 4:24 PM

  I'm reading Think Java: http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-java/

  so far so good, I like it for it's size. I wanted an introductory text that wasn't 1000 pages.

• by charmides on 9/8/18, 2:31 AM

  If you tell me why you would like to learn Java, then I could help you find the appropriate resources.