Need some advice!!

Question

I am a sophomore in college and my major is computer science. The class I need to pass in order to transfer to a bigger college is a intro to java class. While it may be simple to some reading this, my professor has literally taught us nothing but just gave us syntax on PowerPoints. I guess my question is what are some ways I can teach my self and better my self at java. Any advice or help for a new struggling beginner would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much, this community is truly amazing!

Answer 1

My Java class was exactly like that. My salvation came from reading the textbook. And then I would usually go to TAs or the professor to when I read something I did not understand. Also if you have the option I would advise doing class projects alone and get your questions answered by TAs or so. Otherwise if you are struggling your partner might end up doing all the work and you won't learn a thing.

Finally, you can always post questions here. The community here can be very helpful. And you might want to try the challenges and also small projects that you can find online. You can start with those on Project Euler if you find them interesting. If you do the challenges here, make sure you take a look at what others have posted in the comments. You can learn a lot like that. Best of Luck!

Answer 2

Do the course here. It can teach you everything you need to pass that class. Code everything you can to practice. Modify each 'try it yourself' to see what works and get use to the error messages by breaking it. Since you know what you changed, you can make sense of the errors.