Top 10 GitHub Repositories to Master Java: From Basics to Advanced Concepts!

GitHub is a gold mine for learners. There are plenty of free resources available over GitHub that could be leveraged to upskill in the Software industry. There are repositories built by Software Engineers, Developers and Programmers that serve as a learning resource for multiple programming languages.

I have been using GitHub for many years and have learnt a lot from different repositories that share knowledge regarding programming languages, DSA, algorithms, design patterns, from basic to advanced and super advanced. I have also utilized GitHub to learn Software Testing tools, techniques and frameworks.

In this blog, I will be sharing a list of Top 10 GitHub repositories that could help in mastering Java from basics to advanced to improve as well as enhance your Java programming skills.

Java Tutorials for Beginners

Java Tutorials for Beginners is a popular repository on GitHub having 1.4k stars. It has a Java tutorial for beginners with 500 code examples. Starting from the basics to the advanced, this repository covers almost all the tutorials for a beginner.

Java Coding Guidelines

Java Coding Guidelines provides resources to learn about the Java coding guidelines including programming specification covering from naming conventions to code comments. It also covers guidelines about exceptions, logs, project and security specifications. Currently, it has over 900 stars and is a recommended repository to understand the Java coding guidelines.

Java Best Practices

Java Best Practices is another insightful repository that has over 1.3k stars. Using best practices can help us write clean code and save lots of time and efforts of refactoring. This repository details out the best practices in coding, designing and architecting Java applications.

Java Algorithms

Java Algorithms is a well liked repository by the Java community on GitHub. It has amazing 60.4k stars and shares all the algorithms implemented in Java. The Directory.md file has the list of all the algorithms covered in this repository, check it out now to get the max out of it!

Java Design Patterns

Java Design Patterns is another most famous GitHub repository that covers all the design patterns in Java. With an absolutely incredible 90.4k stars, it is a hugely popular repository among Java enthusiasts. This repository is also supported in multiple languages.

For learning design patterns, refactoring.guru can also be referred as it provides detailed explanation of all Java design patterns.

How to use Builder design pattern in Java + Datafaker for test data generation in automation…

Awesome Java

Awesome Java GitHub repository offers a curated list of awesome frameworks, libraries and software for the Java programming language. With 42.3k stars, this is another trending repository offering Java learning materials. This repository could be used as a ready reference by beginners and even professional experts.

Baeldung Java and Spring Tutorials

Baeldung as every one knows is a known name in the Java world. The website itself is a gold mine for all the Java resources. This GitHub repository that has over 36.8k stars is maintained by Baeldung and provides Java learning resources from basic to advanced covering frameworks like Spring Boot. It also offers example code related to automation testing shared in their blogs.

Useful Java Links

Useful Java Links GitHub repository can be used as a handy reference to go through the example codes related to Java. It has 5.9k stars and provides a list of useful frameworks, libraries and software examples using Java. It has multiple sections including Java Development, Databases, Network integration, tools, testing, etc that could help in learning the required resource easily.

Java Cheat Sheet

Java Cheat sheet repository on GitHub is a companion reference that could serve as a cheat sheet to the Java beginners. It covers all the Java programming topics starting from basics to the advanced concepts. With 601 stars, this GitHub repository is getting noticed by many Java enthusiasts.

Awesome Learning

Awesome Learning is not specifically related to Java. However, it has links to multiple websites that could help in learning, practicing and upgrading your Java skills. Basically, the idea behind this repository is to share learning resources for test automation engineers. Apart from Java, this repository also provides learning resources for test automation engineers from basic to advanced level.

Checkout the Java Developer’s roadmap in case you are confused and want to know where to start from!!

Summary

GitHub is filled with lots of learning opportunities and provides different learning resources that could enable the software engineers, developers, devops engineers and automation test engineers to polish and upskill themselves. Though the learning resources are free it requires focus, attention and practice efforts from the individual’s part.

Happy Learning!!