3 weeks in.
My Java learning has begun, I bought an excellent book called “Head First into Java” following a recommendation from a friend.I am continuing with the Stanford Youtube lectures on Programming Methodology as well as watching some other beginner tutorials.
I am through the “Hello World” stage – the standard “Well done you just created your first program!” part of tutorials that must have originated in the 80’s when making a computer print “Hello World” on screen was far more impressive.
I have decided to immerse myself in the world of ‘programming’ outside of my dedicated learning – for example; I have signed-up to Stack Overflow, started following and reading articles from relevant feeds on Twitter like Java Code Geeks and Hacker News.
Now what is daunting is that 99% of it makes no sense to me.
There is so much terminology, things like – API, Spring, Hibernate, JDBC, MySQL, Tomcat, PHP. I need to reassure myself that in 12 months-time I will know what all of this means – won’t I?