Ask HN: Best books/courses to learn Java core+advanced?

29 points by shivajikobardan - 382 Days, 0 Hour ago Hacker News

This is my first time teaching. I just graduated in 2020 and have been working as a production support engineer.

These are the subjects that I am assigned to teach(each in odd and even semesters)

- Java(object oriented concepts+core java+advanced java)

This is a 2 semester course

Sample contents with reference books here:

https://csitprogram.blogspot.com/2012/08/csc-403-advanced-java-programming.html

- Data Structures and Algorithms(with practical labs in java)

This is also a 2 semester courses, this is not "java"ic, but I am going to make them do the labs in java as per the syllabus.

I am going through couple of books:

- Y. Daniel Liang

- Herbert Schildt

- Car S. Horstmann, Core Java Volume I and II – Advanced Features, 8th Edition, 2008, Prentice Hall.

- Y. Daniel Liang, Introduction to Java Programming, 9th Edition, Comprehensive Version, Pearson/ Prentice Hall.

- H. Deitel, P. Deitel. Java How to Program. 7th Edition, 2007, Prentice Hall.

Any guidance? This semester, I will be teaching java OOPs/basics, next semester it'll be advanced java then data structures and algorithms in another 2 semesters.

PS I feel I myself need to revise my java concepts, so feel free to recommend books/courses to me. I will try my best to do justice to the students who paid tons of money for these classes as this will shape their Software engineering future.