Is Codecademy good for learning Java and building projects?
Just finished the Codecademy Java course. Now what?
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Good article, but it's still better than not learning at all. Getting your feet wet is part of the process of learning how to program.
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Honestly and neither trying to be sarcastic, nor mean:
Start with a decent tutorial, as are listed in the wiki:
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University of Helsinki MOOC Object Oriented Programming with Java - free
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Java for Complete Beginners by John Purcell free
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CaveOfProgramming link - John Purcell's site
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Udemy Link
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YouTube Series
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The Codecademy Java tutorial is just good enough to get your toes wet, but by far not enough to get started programming.
Sure, with what you have learned at Codecademy you will find the first few lessons boring, but I still suggest that you sit through them
Then, find a project to do and start programming. Project ideas are listed in the sidebar under Programming Challenges
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