Java Quick Start

Other Tutorials

Java is an open-source project, meaning it’s totally free to use, and there is a big community to support you — including tutorials by some of the best educators in the world. Here are a few of them.

6 recommended resources, all free.

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Foojay Java in Education Catalog

by The Foojay community

A community-driven catalog of Java learning resources: websites, tutorials, videos, books and tools for students, educators, coding clubs and developers. An open, collaborative hub for finding the best Java learning content for teaching, self-learning and classroom use — and contributions are welcome on GitHub.

JFX Central - Learn JavaFX

by The JavaFX community

JFX Central is the hub for everything JavaFX — libraries, tools, people, showcases and a cross-platform example app. Its Learn section gathers the tutorials, books, videos and courses for building desktop and mobile user interfaces in Java, once you have the language basics down.

Java Programming

by Angie Jones

Angie Jones is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences worldwide. Her Java introduction course is excellent and free.

Java Tutorial

by Jakob Jenkov

Jakob Jenkov is a technopreneur, software architect, writer and publisher focused on the big ideas in the software and tech industry. He has published over 800 technical articles, which attract millions of readers every year. His tutorial site contains a lot of different sections, including a very extended one about Java.

Learn Java Basics with IntelliJ IDEA

by Shai Almog

Shai Almog is an author, DevRel, blogger, open source hacker, Java rockstar, conference speaker, instructor and entrepreneur. And he creates terrific video tutorials. In this series he teaches you to program with Java in the free IntelliJ IDEA community edition.

Introduction to Java Programming

by SJSU and Udacity

Created by Cay Horstmann and Kathleen O'Brien of SJSU (San Jose State University) and Cheng-Han Lee and Sara Tansey of Udacity. Initially published on Udacity, it is now available for free on Cay's website. It is much more interactive than a typical video tutorial, following the principle of "if you talk for more than two minutes without an exercise, you've failed".

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