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Posted by Piotr Stefański
Piotr Stefański
3,080 Points

Programming track - which course to begin with?

Hi All,

I am going to reactivate my account here on treehouse and I am want to focus on developing my programming skills. I am currently learning JAVA so I decided, that I will first start with this course, but my question is what should I do next?

I just want to plan a track for me based on the courses propose by Treehouse.

What are your suggestion?

2 Answers

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points
Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

If you rare currently leanring JAVA, then learn JAVA and don't bother about others atm. Other programming languages shoudl come fairly easy once you get a good foundation in JAVA.

Assuming you like mobile stuff, i guess, then you can do Obj-C for example.

Or maybe you liek webistes? Then go HTML/CSS , JS, PHP for starters, and then choose RoR or node.js etc..

HOpe this helps.

But learn one on a good level first, till your not affraid to build stuff.

Piotr Stefański
Piotr Stefański
3,080 Points
Piotr Stefański
Piotr Stefański
3,080 Points

Thank you Konrad, it was very helpful.

My plan is to take all the courses from JAVA and than jump into websities development as I already started doing something with this.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

^^

Well, don't take just courses on JAVA, build apps with Java and so something. You need to build , create things with Java so you get good at it, once you get good at it and not afraid to build anything, then i guess you can move on.

When i was starting, and im still, i was jumping from this to this, or trying this and this and now im focused on one , and when i look at other programming languages, they seem a lot easier, just because im getting a deeper understanding on the programming language i learn.

But i guess you could start learning HTML and CSS meanwhile you study Java. The web technologies should come easier once you know Java, but HTML and CSS aren't programming languages.

You can try to make a mobile game with Java that you can shoot, enemies, health bar, ammo, levels etc.. if you can do it.. then you can move on. If you can't do something, but its a challenge to do it, thatn thats good, as long as you finish it and do it. But if you can't do it, then you should stick with Java a bit longer, as at the end you shoudl be facing challenges that you can solve for the most parts.