Java Tutorial for Complete Beginners (Udemy.com)

Audio and video are out dated, the instructor is a bit slow for me and the examples should be a bit clearer. Also, it would be nice to show this on a MAC and not only on a PC.

John is excellent at explaining and giving examples. I am 56 and need to learn java to keep up with changes and automation for my job (QA testing of software) This is not my first attempt but it's been my most successful one. The only reason I gave 4 1/2 starts and not 5 is I believe we all have some room for improvement. Thank You John.

I loved the explanation with the drawing, describing the purpose of the JDK (compilation) and JRE (execution) and JVM (computer platform simulation). I loved it! I knew what the acronyms stood for, which gave a general description of what they were, but the explanation with the drawing really made a light bulb go on! Thanks! The instructor seems to go slower, in the first 25 lessons or so, and it's easier to follow, especially, if you are typing the code the same time he is typing the code, and executing the code as well. In the second set of 25 lessons, it's begins to be hard to follow, because the instructor is going faster, without saying what he's doing at times (Ex: hitting the run button, without announcing it, doing Control Shift O for import statements, without announcing it (and I can't remember the keystrokes for import statements. Tell us again what the keystrokes are, as repetition in learning is good), so there's alot of rewinding that's required, to catch up on what was missed, as I was typing. I love the transcript, because some pronunciations are hard to understand. I just open the transcript and read what I didn't understand. Thanks for the transcript! It has saved me a couple of times. All tutorials have compiled successfully when I ran them, so I'm happy about that!

The course was a great introduction to Java and I learned alot. Now when I read and try to write my own code, I have a nice set of examples to use. I am a Cobol/DB2 developer which is way different than Java but I thought everything was very easy to understand. What helped me so much was commenting your explanations above the related section of the code. It helps with all the new terminology. I hope you create an advanced Java course in the future. Thanks for a great course.

I think the course is fantastic, it teaches so much in each lesson, the fact that John takes his time to explain everything really makes the whole thing a lot easier to take in. I was a complete newb to Java having only ever dabbled in Basic a long, long time ago but thanks to John this has given me the confidence to get my skills up to date and keep going with this course.

Though struggling, I am following Johns advice and powering through his tutorials until the very end. I expect I'll refer back to them after completion. I went through each tutorial by viewing the video, then copying the source code from caveofprogramming.com into eclipse. I then would create a seperate class and replicate, sometimes with my own flair, what was taught in the particular tutorial. I've now reached the end of that which took 40+ days. While rusty in some previous concepts I feel like I have the basics down and am now excitedly trying my hand at small projects to build the skillset up.

Personally I'm not only grateful for this gentlemen's time; but applaud his commitment. I have always been interested in programming but for one reason or another I was somewhat apprehensive as to whether I could learn programming. I am close to 50% completing the lectures and hands on coding in Java and I am actually getting it. Thank you.

This course took me a year to do and thats because of the way I chose to study this course. I used the subtitles and took notes and wrote out the code as well as messed around with the code on eclipse. I feel that sometimes the way Johns explaining he forgets that we are beginners but thats a good thing because I am getting an idea of what to expect when speaking to other coders. This course is a really really good course I recommend it but if like any course on Udemy don't just code take notes and you'll all reap the benefits - Thanks John, my next task is Spring which I'll do much quicker - Happy Coding and Happy New Year :-)

I thought Java was too complicated for me, until I decided to start this course... Wow.... I still can't believe it. Now I'm writing some code for almost everything, even if it is not needed. This course is clear, easy to understand and goes to the essential. For years , i have spent many hours in Java classes and I was not able to write a small program. I thought , I was too stupid to understand Java. Now I know , the teacher was the problem. Here, i have to say THANK YOU to JOHN .P. THANK YOU very much , John.

So far a great staring series - though I'm only a couple of videos in. I previously had done the Codecademy Java course, and found it left me feeling less than confident. I am hoping what I pick up here will supplement that and help me to better understand and start using Java. Update upon completion: It's been several years since I started this course, and I've learned a lot that surpasses the content here. I'm giving this a 3.5 (from 5), as it's still a very good base, and for a free tutorial it's super useful... but there's a lot that could be updated.