Master Java Fundamentals for Spring Boot Success | Thabo Matjuda posted on the topic | LinkedIn

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Before diving into Spring Boot, make sure your Java fundamentals are solid. Frameworks don’t replace fundamentals, they assume them. If interfaces, collections, or HTTP basics still feel unclear, Spring will only amplify that confusion. Master the basics first. Everything else becomes easier. #Java #SpringBoot #SoftwareEngineering #BackendDevelopment #Programming

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Before you jump into Spring Framework and Spring Boot, here's what you should learn first. So first, learn solid Java fundamentals. That means you cover things like classes, interfaces, some collections and things like exceptions. And secondly, understand OP properly, especially interfaces and composition, simply because Spring is basically dependency injection build on top of very good OP. And 3rd, you can learn something like Maven or Gradle, you don't need to master it. Misunderstand what dependency is and how your project builds. And 4th, learn web basics with common integration mediums like Http://basics yet POST status codes and JSON. Spring does not teach you Java, it assumes you already know it and Spring won't explain how the Internet works. Start with strong Java fundamentals and you can explore Portland later. And remember frameworks do change but fundamentals don't. Like follow, share and subscribe.

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Dhruval Vaishnav 1mo

100% this. I've seen developers who can wire up a Spring Boot app in minutes but struggle to explain why ArrayList vs LinkedList matters for their use case, or what's actually happening when an interface reference points to an implementation. The framework hides so much that you can go months without realising there's a gap. Personally the moment things clicked for me was when I stopped reading framework docs and went back to core Java concurrency, suddenly a lot of Spring's design decisions made complete sense.

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Siphelele Mhlungwini 1mo

I have been learning java for some time now, and I am currently on: Java File I/O Streams, Custom exception, Chained Exception (SQL exceptions) like learning to create my own exceptions, understanding Exception class and why to extend from it, to Checked and Unchecked Exceptions and I am moving to Java concurrency like how to create basic program using threads, understanding Thread Life Cycle. then after I will be moving to Collections

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