Foojay Java in Education Catalog

A community-driven catalog of Java learning resources with websites, tutorials, videos, books, and tools for students, educators, coding clubs, and developers.

The goal is to provide an open, collaborative hub for students, educators, and developers to discover the best Java learning content for teaching, self-learning, and classroom use.

This project is a call for the community to collaborate, to show that Java is still strong, and to highlight the numerous resources available for learning or teaching Java today.

Community-curated Java learning resources. Contributions are welcome on GitHub!

Websites

Website

Java in Education – Wiki Page

Community-curated wiki about Java teaching and educational initiatives. Maintained by the JCP (Java Community Process) community.
Website

Foojay, the website for Friends Of OpenJDK

Foojay is a central resource for the Java community’s daily information needs, a place for friends of OpenJDK, and a community platform for the Java ecosystem, bringing together and helping Java professionals everywhere.
Website

Java Evolved

Java has evolved. Your code can too. A collection of modern Java code snippets. Every old Java pattern next to its clean, modern replacement — side by side.
Website

Learn Java on dev.java

A collection of tutorials on how to get started with Java, getting to know the Java language, and more.

Tutorials

Tutorial Video

Foojay Java Quick Start

On Foojay.io: Step-by-step instructions to install Java on Windows, Linux, and macOS. And 10 short lessons to learn the very basics of the Java programming language.
Video

Creating your first Java application with IntelliJ IDEA

A video tutorial on how to create and run a simple Java application that prints Hello, World! to the system output.
Video

Create your first Java application

A written tutorial on how to create, build, run and package a simple Java application.
Tutorial

Getting Started with Java by Devoxx4Kids

Installing and Fundamentals.

Books

Parents Teaching

Raising Young Coders: A Parent’s Guide to Teaching Programming at Home

Book by Cassandra Chin: Introduce your children to programming at an early age and see how nurturing their interest can significantly contribute to their future success. This book offers creative, kid-friendly tools and projects to ignite childhood curiosity, all while confronting early-age gender biases in tech and supplementing the lack of creative and diverse tech curriculum in schools.
Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi

eBook by Frank Delporte: Controlling physical things with some lines of code is magic! This book includes a lot of information, history about Java itself, and how to install and use Java on the Raspberry Pi to interact with electronic components.

Website Leanpub

Minecraft

Tutorial

Minecraft Modding by Devoxx4Kids

How to do Minecraft modding with two different tools:

  • Forge: client-side modding, which only works if you have the mod installed. With Forge, you can do lots of cool things like making new blocks, items, mobs, and even biomes and dimensions.
  • Spigot: server-side modding, anyone who connects to the server can enjoy the mods installed. Most big servers, like Mineplex and Hypixel, are Spigot servers.

Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

Control electronics with Java, JBang, and Pi4J

Want to get started with Java programming on the Raspberry Pi? JBang is a great way to create your first program to control electronic components connected to a Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins.

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