Digest of articles by students JavaRush #2 for February 20-23

Imperceptibly we approached the equator of our competition. Thank you for writing such interesting posts for CodeGym groups , sharing knowledge with fellow students, commenting on each other's articles and liking! Continue in the same spirit! More useful articles - stronger knowledge! We bring to your attention the second selection of articles by CodeGym students published from February 20 to February 23. Follow the link, read, vote likes, comment and... write your posts! There is still time to do it, and win one of the cool books on programming. For those of you who missed it: Contest Terms CodeGym #1 Student Article Digest February 17-19

And here are the new articles of the contestants:

1. Creating a Telegram bot in Java: from idea to deployment

CodeGym student John Watson (level 27) wrote a very useful practical article about creating a bot for Telegram. The author not only describes how to create such an application, but where to deploy it, and also provides links to definitions and APIs for development that are necessary for understanding.

2. MVP in Android for the little ones

Applying the right practices and programming patterns is necessary not only in the Enterprise, but also in mobile development. Aleksey Dmitrevsky (level 31, Moscow) is convinced of this , and demonstrates how the MVP (Model-View-Presenter) principle can be applied when writing a simple Android application with a database. The author also provides a link to GitHub with the full code of the parsed example.

3. One life-changing decision

Igor Melnitsky (Level 25 CodeGym) started our course with the logical intention of becoming a programmer and also training his brain. The author of this article believes that it was the training of thinking that led him to a successful business project, which he is now engaged in. He also gives some advice to the "newbies".

4. Benefits of using Spring

Many people have heard about Spring, but those who are just starting their way as a “javist” basically do not understand what kind of framework it is, and perceive it as some kind of “horror story” that they will encounter in the near future. CodeGym student Alex (level 37) tells newbies why Spring is good.

5. Top 7 Java Books for Beginners

Max Stern (Level 35) from Nizhny Novgorod shares a list of useful Java books that helped him understand various aspects of our favorite language while studying. The author talks about the simplest textbooks "from scratch", and about detailed reference books, and about those books that every "javist" should read to form the right programmer's thinking.