Java programming

johnsparton10 · 23 Mar 2012 at 08:31

Hello all,

Just wanting to know if any program exsists to teach java? I have seen a few books online but no specific program. Any help on this or just a point in the right direction would be awesome.

Many thanks

AMMUT · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:40

Not that I'm aware of. Good old book reading and plenty of practice writing small programs is the best way I found to learn how to program in java.

johnsparton10 · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:42

Thanks man, am doing that now. Just wanted to know what all my opitions are. Just getting a heads up before uni.

gigeorge · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:42

I did java for 3 years at uni, funny how i was told that the course wouldnt have much programming, ended up programming network sockets in c

johnsparton10 · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:47

lol. This has made me want to get a heads up even more now!

metbandit1 · 23 Mar 2012 at 09:54

gigeorge said:
I did java for 3 years at uni, funny how i was told that the course wouldnt have much programming, ended up programming network sockets in c

Pretty much what happened to me, however any coding we would be doing we were told would be in C, but ended up using VB instead. Goddamn I have that language :mad:

UK-AL05 · 26 Mar 2012 at 03:13

metbandit1 said:
Pretty much what happened to me, however any coding we would be doing we were told would be in C, but ended up using VB instead. Goddamn I have that language

Torture university?

snowdog · 26 Mar 2012 at 04:15

My uni teaches us mainly with small programs growing in complexity every week. And large (fun) projects in groups like programming a robot or making a bank system.

Plenty of small simple apps works best in my experience, it's how I went from being a total noob weeks behind the curriculum to ''ahh so it works like this''. There was a math lesson where the only help we could use was our own written java apps, of course this was quite simple to program but that was an easy way to get comfy with it.

sniffy · 26 Mar 2012 at 10:57

There's no single tool that I'm aware of. However there are IDEs that have been built with new programmers in mind. BlueJ is an ideal candidate. If you get "Objects First with Java" then you should have a very nice head-start.