Advice for studying for Java Programmer 1

Do as many online practice tests as possible. Knowing how to pass the certification test is a bit different to knowing how to program
 
Firstly you brush up your OOPS concept.
Secondly start with the basic topic of JAVA, clear it properly and then start practice some of the example related that topic.
Thirdly create application based on that topic which you have learned.
You should refer some of the good online JAVA tutorial too.

I would like to suggest you some best books for JAVA :

Head First - O Reily
Java Complete Reference
Think Java - Allen B. Downey
 
Stillie said:
i am using the official Oracle book? is that what u talking about? or the stuff suggested in the link?
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Yes it's the same. The link is just an online version of what is in the book, for free.
 
Stillie said:
I have been working with Android Studio (for android dev side - duh) so i am quite familiar with IntelliJ style of things, so for Java i will stick with that.

But when it comes to learning Java, im using TextWrangler on Mac and Notepad++ on Windows

Have you got any other ideas (besides eclipse)
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I like IntelliJ. I have the ultimate edition which isn't free, but the community edition is free and works just as great. It doesn't have all the features such as web and database tools, but that doesn't mean you can't do web development and database because this depends on having the libraries. All the ide adds is to make setting up and building easier for web and DB Feb.

I don't like Eclipse for larger projects. But if you are learning it's great, especially since most tutorials use Eclipse.

Netbeans is pretty good. I prefer Netbeans over Eclipse, but that's a personal view.
 
Eclipse for Java

Uhm.. I learnt Java at varsity, previously learnt C++ and C so moving to Java was awesome and this was when it was in revision 1.1-1.2 jdk (giving away age). Then I did eng and 4th gen languages and a lot of adhoc scripting.

Started Java dev again for work for 1st time 4 yrs ago.. big learning curve vs 1.4, 1.6 changes but it's been interesting. Mainly do java se but doing web stuff now on the side and it's fun as ideas are yrs old.. so now choosing between soap, restful, xml, json etc is all easy as there is a lot of docs on what to use for types of services.

Busy with service offerings via Java backend but yah lots of fun.

Best Java book.. Thinking Java - Bruce Eckel (easy to find a PDF online) but when I started I used Java First Contact
 
IntelliJ community edition if you don't want to pay

It is by far the best Java ide.

It's functional refactoring suggestions are great.

It's the perfect tool to help you write better Java.
 
Stillie said:
I have been working with Android Studio (for android dev side - duh) so i am quite familiar with IntelliJ style of things, so for Java i will stick with that.

But when it comes to learning Java, im using TextWrangler on Mac and Notepad++ on Windows

Have you got any other ideas (besides eclipse)
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Is NetBeans still a thing?
 
I never liked Eclipse. Always thought of it as this massive heavy and slow IDE.

Had to code some Java recently, gave the latest version another try and was pleasantly surprised. It's a really nice tool.
 
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Hamster said:
I never liked Eclipsed. Always thought of it as this massive heavy and slow IDE.

Had to code some Java recently, gave the latest version another try and was pleasantly surprised. It's a really nice tool.
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Main reason I tend to use it over Netbeans and IntelliJ is that I can (similar to Xcode & Sublime Text) easily switch between languages in multi language project, that is without having to open another IDE.

Overall it's look is quite a bit antiquated (it needs love), but overall it's quite a pleasant IDE, and yes they have worked on the responsiveness.
 
Hamster said:
I never liked Eclipse. Always thought of it as this massive heavy and slow IDE.

Had to code some Java recently, gave the latest version another try and was pleasantly surprised. It's a really nice tool.
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If you use it on a machine with HDD and use VMware at the same time then you very brave hehe.. those two apps kill HDDs and are only bearable on SSDs especially together when combined with antivirus packages & Corp spyware.

Atom has grown on me (use to use notepad++/win, sublime/Mac) as a quick text editor and I think sublime will die soon as you can't compete with free open source + plugins with a costly editor.

InteliJ use to be cool back in the day as it had autocomplete before anyone else for java(excl j++/Microsoft) on a c++ compiled IDE (we talking 2000s and then Eclipse came along as a freeebie that showed how slow netbeans was and was free wit many tooling it for own use.

Netbeans is a java written IDE so it sucked as it was slow.. last I tried in 2011/2 it was a bit more bearable but I just use eclipse these days due to abundance of tooling.

I see InteliJ has a free tier these days but yah.. not a fan. Think I will just stick to Eclipse, XCode, Atom and Visual Studio (Microsoft dev in windows) on Mac
 
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When you face a Java problem where do you go? StackOverflow, Coderanch or Official Java forums? Yes there are lots of online resources to help a Java programmer when he stuck. Being one of the most popular programming language ever, Java has huge community. There are lots of blogs, websites and forums to help you on minute detail of Java programming. It doesn't matter if you are beginner facing problem or an expert looking for best possible way to do certain things in Java, forums always provide a good support.
 
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