JAVA8 Beginner's Guide, Schildt. For a beginner - is it necessary?

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Hello, however. Decided to start learning java, and since I'm still green, I was advised to take a beginner's guide, Schildt. They say everything will be told there. Well, I took it and started reading, but the problem arose after a certain period of time. I began to realize that I was beginning to lose interest in the language. After reading the comments about this book, I saw that some people wrote that this is not for beginners, and in general it is a reference book. Who, what, can say about this?

Answer 1

It's not the book, it's normal. Let's be honest, programming itself can hardly be called something exciting, especially at the learning stage, when, often, skills do not have time to keep up with ambitions and there is a feeling of futility of the efforts made.
But the implementation of an interesting project can be exciting. Just find an idea from which your eyes "light up" and set a goal to implement it, start small, even in the process of writing simple programs, you can stumble upon unexpected things. And of course, be patient, without it, nowhere, whatever one may say.
Butin a sense, people are right. Schildt, the bad thing is that he would prefer to burden the reader with a couple of extra paragraphs of dry text and terminology, instead of abstracting from programming for at least a minute and giving any analogies from life, which could be enough to understand the topic.
And in general, this is not a book that sets itself the task of captivating the reader, it is really more like a reference book for in-depth study. As an opposite example, I would cite the book Head first Java, the authors dilute the text with jokes, metaphors and dragging the same program through the floor of the book, thereby building a kind of story arc, forcing you to gradually develop it taking into account the topics under consideration. But for such ease of narration, one has to pay with the depth of the knowledge gained, they are rather superficial and therefore, in the final analysis, one will have to return, for example, to the same Schildt. IMHO, but the best option is to have several books on hand at once, thereby having the opportunity to consider the same topics from different angles.

Answer 2

After some time, the brain begins to consider the information received as not necessary for survival -> there is no interest in reading this book. The book Head first Java is quite original, but after some time it is perceived as a comic book.
Try to combine reading several books.
Many people are doing well learning through javarush.

Answer 3

I read 300 pages myself, I didn’t have time to do the rest, because they took me to work)) In order not to get bored with reading, you need to read in small passages and try to practice on the material you read: I read the topic about streams and start sawing the code, debugging, watching how everything works. You won’t remember everything, but in everyday life, when solving problems, you will remember that you have already seen something like this somewhere, google faster, remember and figure it out.
More than once I heard a conversation between the middles "did you know that in Java ..." and some obvious fact, which is described in this book, is already somehow ridiculous... Incl. you will be an intelligent June, if you master the book, many score, be better)
Fool your brain, make yourself think it's interesting) Useful skill. Sometimes (although not a fact :D ) in the course of your work, you will come across such tasks where you have to work hard on doctoral papers, huge articles, etc., and perseverance will be very useful.