Hey, everyone! I've been working with Java for around 6-7 years now, and I have learned a lot. It's been a truly amazing experience, and I love learning new things each day. Anyway, if you're just starting out, I have a few recommendations for tutorials you can check out that will get you started on your way.

The Basics

Text Tutorials

While I, personally, much prefer video tutorials, as I find them much easier to follow along with, I feel that it wouldn't be right if I didn't make a couple honorable mentions here for some text-based tutorials first.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/

This is a very good, comprehensive tutorial which I have referenced many times throughout my career.

https://www.javatpoint.com/java-tutorial

Another good set of tutorials which approaches teaching in a slightly different way to the last one. You may prefer this one more.

Now, on to the videos!

TheNewBoston's Beginner Tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl-zzrqQoSE&list=PLFE2CE09D83EE3E28

This guy is really nice and I find that he has the perfect mix of going slow and explaining without being boring. His series taught me a lot about general Java development.

TheNewBoston's Intermediate Tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW53w7me4AE&list=PL27BCE863B6A864E3

Once you've mastered the basics, this series goes deeper into specific stuff that experienced developers use in more complex projects.

Game Development

While learning general, foundational Java is very important, if you're like me, you might struggle to keep interested in that stuff. I had a lot more success by going through these tutorials where you make interactive and fun things like games.

2D Tower Defense Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfR09erJu7U&list=PLFUqwj4q1Zr8GHs6bO4d6gxMGUh_2pcNg

This particular tutorial is one that I found the easiest to follow, and the narrator/teacher is easy to listen to.

Multiplayer Top-down "RPG" Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE7ezYCTPe4&list=PL8CAB66181A502179

This is not a tutorial that I watched all the way through since I found it later on in my career and didn't need to watch the specifics as much, but I did skim through it to figure out small things I couldn't on my own, and I found them to be fairly good.