Re: Advice petition on learning java programming

Posted by simon andrews (BI) on Aug 11, 2010; 3:47pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Advice-petition-on-learning-java-programming-tp3686421p3686432.html

On 11 Aug 2010, at 16:28, Soriano.Joaquim wrote:

> Hi there!
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> I'm an imagej user. I am able to write my own macros so far by using the macro recorder.
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> I'm thinking of doing the next step which I think might be learning java programming.
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> Can anyone give me some advice about which is the best way to do so? I mean:  to join an in-person "x" course or "x" internet course or learning on my own with "x" material, don't even try it is painfully hard and useless, ...

To some extent this will depend on how you find you learn best.  I picked up Java from the O'Reilly 'Learning Java' book and then just by playing around writing my own programs.  Other people seem to hate learning from books and are much happier with a hands on course.

One thing I would advise is to see if you can find someone near you who already knows java pretty well and get them to look through anything you've written.  Having someone to ask when you don't get something is invaluable, as is getting the perspective of how someone else would have approached a problem.

Good luck!

Simon.