What's a good place to learn Java ? Written tutorials, books or screencasts, I don't care.
Most of the stuff I've found so far is too much newbie programmer oriented. I don't want to feel like I'm loosing my time scroll through pages explaining me what an array is, the difference between float and doublen or how a for loop works.
Thanks ;)
It's frankly a good class, which cover a large range of fundamental data structures (first part on lists,arrays and regex; second part on graphs and trees). You can follow the video if you want to refresh your memory on - or learn - some parts of cs theory, or just go to the assignments for hands-on java exercises. However, it's can be a bit challenging if you really want to be thorough.
You can also try to develop an Android app, which is often more useful/fun than an desktop software (I'm currently working on a receipt archiving app for my personal account).
For my project, I wanted to scrape a number of websites for their store location data.
First, I reviewed the various libraries and frameworks out there.
Next, I chose the ones with the best documentation, example code, and active community. In this case it was scrapy (scrapy.org).
Last, I dove in. By the end of the day I had some code that was actually useful.