Our team is just starting to use java this year. last year we used labview. does anyone have any good websites that go over the basics of Java? videos would also be great.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/
Sometimes… the official manual is the way to start
Somewhat more approachable than the official website is CodeRanch’s Beginners Resources. The links there cover basic Java and things you’ll want to understand (classpaths, singletons, etc.) The motto there is to be friendly to people new to Java and they’ve kept things accessible.
Another free resource is the book “Thinking in Java.”
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My personal favorite is javanotes. Its certainly lengthy, but many parts of it can be skipped or skimmed, especially if you’re just coming from another language. It has some good exercises and stuff that I’ve used as a teaching tool in the past as well.
This is a free java textbook and my AP computer science used this for grid world and the videos from here are kinda helpful.
http://www.bluepelicanjava.com/
does anyone have any good sites specific to programming robots? thank you for the last ones. those are helpful.
Thank you. also a good code library would be nice