Beginner friendly overview of Java standard library data structures and their methods?
Hi,
I am looking for a beginner friendly resource that can give a nice overview of the different data structures that are part of the java standard library, and their associated methods.
I know that the docs is the usual resource, but it is too difficult for me to understand/navigate and all of the information is spread across different pages so it doesn't give me an overview with a simple explanation.
I need this to better understand what is 'possible' in the language itself, and to know what data structures have what kind of methods on them. This way I can easily know fx, that I could use a Set to remove all duplicate elements in an efficient way, or what methods I can call on hashmap etc.
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Looking for an article/video/course/book :P I want to know the proper syntax and methods in a concise way (like a cheat sheet of some sort, but a bit more detailed)
that contains quite a bit of information
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/collections/index.html and https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base/java/util/doc-files/coll-index.html may be useful for collections specifically
Trail: Collections (The Javaâ„¢ Tutorials)
This collections Java tutorial describes interfaces, implementations, and algorithms in the Java Collections framework
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