Java: what direction to go after Head First Java?

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Java

Hello!!!
The people, recently decided to study JAVA. Started with Head First Java. The book is coming to an end, but what's next?! In what direction to move?! What to read, what to study? Should I buy Eckel "Java Philosophy" or Lafore "Data Structure"?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It depends where you want, in Android or web, but for now in the direction of Google:
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Eckel is good, Bloch is good. You can also buy. I don't know about Lafora. What to read and learn in general, besides Java, can be found here:
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Answer 2

Without practice, there is no point in continuing ...

Answer 3

I don’t advise you to buy, everything is in the public domain, the best tutorials and write code in parallel, if necessary, I can give links to free good ones for both beginners and advanced ones!
It is very difficult from books because not everything is explained and in practice you usually learn a lot of additional things .. 1. You must take his
course for a beginner: courses.caveofprogramming.com (Java For Complete Beginners)
according to MySql (the best on the net)
3. Multithreading (explains smartly) the same site!
4. JDBC - Preferably learn up to advanced J2EE! Servlets (available on the same site) to Java Enterprise is required!
5. Fix the project and only then move to Advanced! Spring/JPA/Hibernate (EJB put aside for last, you may not need it at all after you understand spring and enumeration!)
6. Spring - https://javabrains.io/topics/spring
7.Hibernate/JPA - rutracker.org/forum /tracker.php?f=1565&nm=Hibernate (download)!
Leave the books, there is Github, type in the search the topic you need and find the projects, then look through the code and try to understand, roll over to your development environment. No books!

Answer 4

Professional Java for Web Applications is a very useful and interesting book covering a large technology stack.
I strongly do not advise you to immediately take on Eckel (in Russian, in general, trash). This is a good read before preparing for an interview.
Effective Java is the best Java book in existence. But it should be read with at least a little experience.