Yes Java is still relevent - but how relevent depends on your local market. What are the main skill sets in your local market? What aspects of Java are they loo

Yes Java is still relevent - but how relevent depends on your local market. What are the main skill sets in your local market? What aspects of Java are they looking for? Im seeing some java stacks being replaced with nodejs - but we'll see if the trend lasts In terms of resources its hard to advise - different people learn differently. Some people prefer books, some youtube videos and some by example. Best bet is to google the resources I do think Java 8 in action is an excellent book, also oracle's tutorials are good. The stackoverflow documentation pages for java are quite good too, as is dzone