Bucky's a big part of why I got excited to learn to program in the beginning. It's a great place to get your feet wet if you're really new. Like I said in my other reply though, don't linger too long on videos. They'll only get you so far.
Without a doubt, this video presents the essentials in a very condensed and precise manner. Any pauses in speech or "ums" are edited out. The only problem is the guy charges for the full 4 hour course, but the linked ~1.5 hour is pretty damn good.
I started out learning to program through youtube videos. The problem is that they're never as in-depth as text books. If you want to strengthen your tech-fu, get a real text book like "Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming" by Walter Savitch. Text books can be intimidating because they're more dry than tutorial videos but you will benefit SO much more from them.
This one looks really good and is going to be on my second order. btw is there a big difference between the 6th and 7th edition cuz the pricing is way better on the 6th, but i don't want to be missing something i may need?
I go to school for CS at Colo State. They have a pretty good program and they're having us use 6th. I honestly don't know what's been updated in 7th but I'm pretty confident you'll be fine with 6th. It's a textbook I actually enjoy reading which is pretty rare.
I don't know how well they present for beginners, but the Typesafe channel is full of great videos. They're always presenting some of their new technologies complete with examples.
There's a whole lot of Scala there, so unless you plan on learning that too you can easily skip that content. Their major technologies are Akka (an Actor framework), Play (netty based, async, non-blocking http framework), and Sbt (Scala based build tool - juiced up Maven). Obviously their channel will focus on this stuff. It can get a little heady, but I love being able to solve problems in new ways!
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4 u/TheKillerRabbit 19 Jul 2015 00:34
thenewboston taught me how to program in java
2 u/anonphil [OP] 19 Jul 2015 18:00
just subscribed. noyce find.
1 u/sarkobez 21 Jul 2015 20:03
Bucky's a big part of why I got excited to learn to program in the beginning. It's a great place to get your feet wet if you're really new. Like I said in my other reply though, don't linger too long on videos. They'll only get you so far.
2 u/vornth 19 Jul 2015 00:44
Without a doubt, this video presents the essentials in a very condensed and precise manner. Any pauses in speech or "ums" are edited out. The only problem is the guy charges for the full 4 hour course, but the linked ~1.5 hour is pretty damn good.
2 u/Rychek4 19 Jul 2015 01:58
No question, Patrick is amazing. I have bought some of his full tutorials.
1 u/anonphil [OP] 19 Jul 2015 18:02
very cool vid. will watch again, and probably again. thanks man.
2 u/sarkobez 19 Jul 2015 02:32
I started out learning to program through youtube videos. The problem is that they're never as in-depth as text books. If you want to strengthen your tech-fu, get a real text book like "Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming" by Walter Savitch. Text books can be intimidating because they're more dry than tutorial videos but you will benefit SO much more from them.
0 u/anonphil [OP] 19 Jul 2015 18:11
This one looks really good and is going to be on my second order. btw is there a big difference between the 6th and 7th edition cuz the pricing is way better on the 6th, but i don't want to be missing something i may need?
1 u/sarkobez 19 Jul 2015 20:05
I go to school for CS at Colo State. They have a pretty good program and they're having us use 6th. I honestly don't know what's been updated in 7th but I'm pretty confident you'll be fine with 6th. It's a textbook I actually enjoy reading which is pretty rare.
2 u/Tingfar 19 Jul 2015 04:37
I don't know how well they present for beginners, but the Typesafe channel is full of great videos. They're always presenting some of their new technologies complete with examples.
0 u/anonphil [OP] 19 Jul 2015 18:14
just subscribed, thank you good sir. I have a feeling i'll be very useful once i get my feet wet.
2 u/Tingfar 20 Jul 2015 03:26
There's a whole lot of Scala there, so unless you plan on learning that too you can easily skip that content. Their major technologies are Akka (an Actor framework), Play (netty based, async, non-blocking http framework), and Sbt (Scala based build tool - juiced up Maven). Obviously their channel will focus on this stuff. It can get a little heady, but I love being able to solve problems in new ways!