Any advice or tricks to becoming proficient in java?

Question

Hey guys, I have learned the basic stuff from html, css, javascript, and jquery. Now I have been working with java. I really like it and love learning it mainly cause I want to develop apps. I have been working on my own app but the problem is I always have to researching how to do something and it never stays in my head I cannot memorize the code. Any advice on learning java and memorizing it would be helpful. Thank You!

Answer 1

You shouldn't memorize a way (algorithm) to do something you should understand and figure it out. (like finding maximum element in array)

You will memorize other stuff by doing them over and over again. (like how to write a for loop, dumb example**)

You will ALWAYS need to research when trying to make something (google it, read the documentation and so) it is part of development process. Java API has more than 4000 classes (times methods that belong to them) you should be mad trying to memorize everything.

You need to know and memorize how things in java are implemented (like what is abstract class and when to use it, or that String is immutable and what does that mean or what is anonymous inner class etc) and how things behave

I would suggest you taking some beginner book for java ( Java Programming - Arnold, Gosling, Holmes; for example. If it is too hard, try reading Think Java - How to think like computer scientist first)