Where to go with Java?

[Kamern]

I've recently completed a few hours worth of tutorials learning about Java, the Eclipse IDE and Agile/Test Driven Development.

Although now I find myself lacking any sort of ideas or practical use to what I've learned. I've looked at making a basic 2d game although I'm not sure if I should be making an applet or an application.

Does anyone have any decent tutorial links or even any ideas for what I should move on to next?

[Danny Phantom]

Few Hours?

I thought it takes months before you even get comfortable with it and make any Practical use of it.

[Kamern]

[QUOTE=Danny Phantom;32370526]Few Hours?

I thought it takes months before you even get comfortable with it and make any Practical use of it.[/QUOTE]

I've had previous experience with programming languages like PHP, C++ and AS3. I already understand most of the concepts behind object oriented programming and the basic shared syntax and functions of a lot of languages. Yeah it'll take me a few months to get comfortable with Java, so I'm wondering where I should go next with it.

[Danny Phantom]

[QUOTE=Kamern;32370661]I've had previous experience with programming languages like PHP, C++ and AS3. I already understand most of the concepts behind object oriented programming and the basic shared syntax and functions of a lot of languages. Yeah it'll take me a few months to get comfortable with Java, so I'm wondering where I should go next with it.[/QUOTE]

Well I use to take code I wrote in C Language and try to convert it to Java. And also When I started I watched "TheNewBoston's" tutorials - You can skip the introductory videos because they are for the very beginners. here [url]http://www.thenewboston.com/?cat=36&pOpen=tutorial[/url]

I think you already know that but you can just check it there are more than 87 videos and you can see which topic you don't know about.

You can try watching from #70 video or above.

[editline]19th September 2011[/editline]

And also here are the Java Game Development tutorials - You can try them too - [url]http://www.thenewboston.com/?cat=35&pOpen=tutorial[/url]

[editline]19th September 2011[/editline]

And the Intermediate Java Tutorials - [url]http://www.thenewboston.com/?cat=33&pOpen=tutorial[/url] -

[Map in a box]

No to the new boston. Please. For me?
I recommend [url]http://slick.cokeandcode.com/[/url] if you wish to make games.
Amazing java tutorials by Oracle themselves: [url]http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/[/url]

[robmaister12]

I already made a huge post about TheNewBoston in another thread - he doesn't teach properly, he skims over important things, and when explaining concepts he uses some mix of Java and English (when explaining methods, he created a class called "apples", wrote out "public void bakeCake()" then when writing methods, he did this "bake cake; eat the fn cake;"

It's a very haphazard way of teaching, I would never recommend his videos, books are IMO the best way to learn, but if you absolutely HAVE to use video tutorials, don't use his.

[Danny Phantom]

uh well Okay, if too many people are disagreeing then may be they are right.