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Learning Java: top tips

Java is pretty popular nowadays, and many people start getting acquainted with the world of programming languages with its help. Check our recommendations on how to make the process of learning easier. 

Take action

Everything is simple, and everyone knows it. You do not need to sit still and twirl thoughts in your head, to start or not to start. Everything comes in action, start to act, and the result will appear immediately (positive or negative – it doesn’t matter at the beginning). If you do not do anything, you will remain in the role of a laggard.

Study the code of other programmers

Chat with other programmers, try and read their programs. This is often more important than reading the book alone. With friends or a team united by common goals, you can quickly achieve what you want. If you study programming together and share your thoughts with each other, you will speed up your learning many times.

An incredible number of programmers improve their knowledge by reading the code of more experienced programmers.

Learn Java intelligently

You need to find a middle ground between independent “digging” and consultation with more experienced professionals and not go to extremes. Start your training with video materials, for example, on youtube.

Video is perceived best by beginners because there is no way to do something wrong or make a mistake, which is important at the initial stage. Search for videos, for example, by the tag “Java for Beginners,” sort videos by rating or number of views. If you feel that you don’t understand any material, you don’t need to break through the wall with your forehead and try to understand it at all costs.

There is no need to get stuck in one place. Try to look for an equivalent solution to your problem in video tutorials, presentations, and ready-made software projects, i.e., explore it in other media types.

Also, pay attention to the speed of your typing on the keyboard. Many people do not attach great importance to this skill, but it is a huge mistake. The speed of learning increases with the speed of typing. When you type automatically, the head is not distracted, the hands do everything themselves, and nothing interrupts the thinking process.

Get your own bug tracker

A bug tracker is a bug tracking system, the presence of which is a good practice in the development of most systems. One of the functions allows you to accumulate the experience of solved problems to avoid facing them in the future. If you are not lazy and start your own bug tracker on your computer, where you will enter all your errors and their solutions, you will quickly begin to progress.

When you describe your problem and put it somewhere along with the solution – in the future, it is unlikely that you will make this mistake again. Or you can handle it quickly. The next time you have an error that you once solved, you will find it in your bug tracker and solve it easily.

Learn Java consistently

You don’t have to get ahead of yourself and start learning, for example, threads in Java when you can’t even manually compile the class and run it. You must do everything consistently. 

Learn to find information correctly

There is no need for any reason to run to the forum and ask a question. First, you need to look for the information needed yourself. Search through the search engines. In most cases, someone has already solved your problem; you need to find those who solved it. Use google’s advanced search capabilities.

A well-formed search query will significantly increase the speed of finding a solution to a problem. The rule is that the more effort you put into finding a problem, the better you will remember the solution to this problem.

If you are a frequent user of forums, you have probably noticed that experienced programmers do not like to answer questions directly. They will rather point you in the direction so that you can figure it out further. Therefore, you do not need to ask others to solve your problem or write any code for you. Ask them to indicate the direction; they will be happy to show it to you. 

Hopefully, our recommendations were helpful. Good luck!