Great Article John, currently I am learning Java, I am reading Headfirst java book, but... but it's a bit disappointing to read a book talking about java 5.0 and now we are on 15 and 16. Does it make a difference? IDK.
when I read your article, I felt a bit overwhelmed, and I need too much more to do, also it's teaching about swing, isn't that outdated? I heard of Javafx, It looks more modern(I saw some created GUIs). I read ~350 pages from ~650, what is left is the following:
1- Swing
2- Serialization and file i/o
3- networking and threads
4- collections with generics
5-package, jars, and deployment
6- remote deployment with RMI
what do you think is the best thing to do now??
Actually I want to learn all 3, but for the first one is Android, My university will teach me web backend one day, but I won't take mobile development course cause I want to finish it my self, I might study something else as major elective...
Great Article John, currently I am learning Java, I am reading Headfirst java book, but... but it's a bit disappointing to read a book talking about java 5.0 and now we are on 15 and 16. Does it make a difference? IDK.
when I read your article, I felt a bit overwhelmed, and I need too much more to do, also it's teaching about swing, isn't that outdated? I heard of Javafx, It looks more modern(I saw some created GUIs). I read ~350 pages from ~650, what is left is the following:
1- Swing
2- Serialization and file i/o
3- networking and threads
4- collections with generics
5-package, jars, and deployment
6- remote deployment with RMI
what do you think is the best thing to do now??
This would depend on what you intend to do with Java.
Web (Backend) or Desktop Apps or Android.
These are the popular use cases of Java these days.
For Backend:
For Android:
For Desktop:
There are other use cases of Java (python is more popular) for example Machine learning - In that case, you can dive into ML concepts.
You know enough to do any of these in my opinion - doing some real life work will also add to your motivation.
Actually I want to learn all 3, but for the first one is Android, My university will teach me web backend one day, but I won't take mobile development course cause I want to finish it my self, I might study something else as major elective...
Thank you Ahwin for the advice :)