Learning java for plugins

Hello I am now studying java since I have a tutor which he will be teaching me for 10 lessons.
After this I am hoping to understand making plugins more.
After I have got the grips of java how will i learn about the bukkit api?
Any referral links would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!

 

First learn the basic of java then start using the Bukkit APi

 

Read through the javadocs

 

Or read this Bukkit Wiki article about how to write a Bukkit Plugin: http://wiki.bukkit.org/Plugin_Tutorial

 

He literally just said that he was going to learn Java before attempting to learn the Bukkit API.

I wrote like one tutorial on my website: http://colonelhedgehog.weebly.com/bukkit-api.html

However, I'm probably going to add more eventually.

 

ColonelHedgehog That's all that I see JordyPwner say for his answers.

It's great that you want to learn Java first. Some other people don't seem to get the grasp that Bukkit is an API developed in Java for Java. Other people said great things already (like the plugin tutorial). My advice is to continue to learn Java even when developing for Bukkit. There is so much of Java to learn.

 

teej107 The best part is that there is so much to learn that you'll probably never learn everything there is. So you can always keep learning

 

I recommend going to a YouTube channel you like of good tutorials that have a playlist. Pogostick29dev is good. He was very young when be started and at the end of the tutorial he had such a different voice. But good luck, I hope you have a fun and great time and grow up to have a successful group of plugins.

 

17xDillz1997

So you take a thread that was going very well and then derail it by recommending some frankly awful tutorials and forgetting to mention learning Java first.

 

ColonelHedgehog

My point still stands that recommending Pogostick isn't in his best interests.

 

Recommending a YouTube channel for Java coding is never a good idea, really, because you can never tell who is good and who is not until you've learned the darn thing. You might think, "Oh, NewBoston, easy." But you're better off learning through text documentation, or just diving right in and spamming Stack Overflow with questions you couldn't find the answer to on any other reliable sites.

 

ColonelHedgehog

I concur.

 

I would recommend the BCBroz that is where i started.

 

I can't tell if this guy is trolling or serious.

 

Yeaaaah I took a quick peak at what he does. The way he fetches the logger is weird.

 

ColonelHedgehog I don't know if you're referring to BCBroz or Pacothegint. BCBroz does so many things badly and wrong (like fetching the logger). I was referring to Pacothegint comment.

 

I was referring to BCBroz. I mean what's so hard about getLogger().info()? Why do we need to store Minecraft's logger in a non-local final instance?

 

lol...... BCBroz

In other news, he quit like a month ago. I guess this means.... hurra?

 

ColonelHedgehog You don't. And you shouldn't use Minecraft's logger in the first place.

 

Precisely.

 

I personally like him, and I think he knows he needs to learn Java fast you twit. As seen on the thread, shut up.

 

17xDillz1997

Fair enough, still doesn't change the fact you're taking my attacking of Pogo's videos personally, which I find rather funny. Also doesn't change the fact that his videos are terrible.

 

Learning a programming language takes time. Don't expect to gain the same level of knowledge with less effort.
mythbusterma was giving his opinion however if you think differently, back up your thoughts with facts.

 

I'd like to see you do better. It's my opinion and I like his videos. I can say you're a terrible person but not everyone would agree on it.

 

17xDillz1997

I could do better by not writing Java like I learned it yesterday.

Yes, it's your opinion that spreading bad Java practises is okay, and I didn't say you couldn't have it, however I'm saying you made a perfectly good thread worse by recommending he learn bad practises.

 

I've been adding more tutorials (so far I have three, two easy tutorials and one intermediate) to my website: http://colonelhedgehog.weebly.com/bukkit-api.html

I try to design them in such a way that one can't just copy and paste my code by taking screenshots of the finished products rather than text.

Anyone who uses one of those image-to-text generators to spoonfeed my code to themselves deserves a cookie, anyway.

 

There is a lot of disadvantages to terrible code

 

Pffffftt... Haha! Wow, what has the Bukkit community turned into these days?

Yeah, he doesn't even use the Bukkit logger, but there are worse things than that.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

YouTube is where I'm learning, PogoStick29Dev and TheBCBroz both are pretty good. When you get stuck on something, either google it or post on here and hope you don't get hated on =P