A Coursera course from UC San Diego teaching object-oriented programming in Java, offered as part of a specialization. Commenters note it can be audited for free, and it covers the core OOP concepts needed to get comfortable with Java.

Commenters call it a great course for absolute beginners and recommend auditing it for free as a step after basic programming.

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1. Strongly recommendscppnewbr/learnprogramming2016in “Best Online Courses You Took”

   Object Oriented Programming in Java, offered by UC San Diego via Coursera, is a really great course.

2. RecommendsPure_Growth_1776r/learnprogramming2023in “How I learn Every concept of java?”▲ 2

   Try exercism, it's free and sounds like what you need: https://exercism.org/tracks/java After this, you can do some free courses in Coursera for Java like DSA and some of the Object Oriented Specializations they have. Don't pay for anything, just audit and learn

3. Recommendssonnytronr/learnprogramming2018in “May 2018 Free Mobile Development Bootcamp - A list by some dude who got a job”

   First of all to you and your fiance thank you for your sacrifices and service. Honestly if you feel like CS50 is making sense to you, stick it out. David Malan is a fantastic lecturer and the course is very powerful. After beating CS50, I suggest doing the object oriented programmimg Java course…

4. Recommendsimaghostspooookyr/learnprogramming2016in “I highly recommend Harvard's free, online 2016 CS50 "Intro to CS" course for anyone new to programming”

   Yes, I was taking about my cc classes, but if you want to learn java, university of Helsinki has a [free course] ( http://mooc.fi/courses/2013/programming-part-1/), you can audit UCSDs java course on coursera (they have others too), udacity has free java courses, so does mit ocw (6.092 I think…

5. Recommendsmarketaxonr/learnprogramming2016in “A big motivation boost”▲ 1

   Well, I took several online courses (Object-Oriented Programming in Java specialization on Coursera is great for absolute beginners, Algorithms I and II), read a few books (started with Introduction to Java programming by Y. Daniel Liang, some classics like Clean Code, Design Patterns, but it…

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