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Java Enums Explained in 6 Minutes

All about Enums in Java - Full tutorial with concrete examples.
Enums (short for Enumerations) are used in Java to hold types that have a certain finite set of values. But if you're new to enums, they can be a little confusing. In this Java beginners' tutorial video, we'll talk all about enums - how you can create your own enums, how to use them, and in what situation using an enum makes sense in your code. All in less than 6 minutes!
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  • @ScottishKoala
    @ScottishKoala11 ай бұрын

    How does this man manage to break down these concepts so effectively, especially at such a quick pace?! These videos are a godsend. The way you add a small piece of code then fully explain why you added it and what it does makes the code extremely easy to understand. The humour along with the simple but creative programs is also a huge plus, very engaging. Thank you!!

  • @howtomath1245
    @howtomath12452 жыл бұрын

    Can you make a long tutorial about what a junior Java developer should know 100% to pass an interview or cover some core topics about it or a playlist of videos? Your videos are pretty understandable and informative, thank you.

  • @howtomath1245

    @howtomath1245

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because when I look up some vacancies, it’s like you should know almost everything from core to spring and other stuff, it’s pretty hard to concentrate on one particular topic

  • @CallumAtwal

    @CallumAtwal

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@howtomath1245 I'm in the same boat. My approach to it is to ensure I know the core fundamentals fully (beyond what is enough to get by). Hence why I've watched a video on such a simple topic in Java, enums. I've always just used enums in the way hes shown but it certainly helps to re-enforce what you know when you watch to back. Doing the same with other trivial and basic java concepts helps strengthen you. As for spring specific things, dummy projects are the way to go. Setting something up yourself. Creating a few difficult scenario's which require spring specific solutions. I work with spring day to day at work but hardly ever will run into edge cases that an interview might ask for. Good luck!

  • @TheDecodee

    @TheDecodee

    2 жыл бұрын

    I adhere to the request, your videos have helped me a lot to understand java, but i would really like to see a video about contents that a jr java would need to know to get a job

  • @devilscarrybach8672

    @devilscarrybach8672

    2 жыл бұрын

    I can help you. If you know basic core java then will take 1 week to get ready for job.

  • @TheDecodee

    @TheDecodee

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@devilscarrybach8672 i would really appreciate your help! How should we do?

  • @jordhan
    @jordhan2 жыл бұрын

    I was trying to understand Enums in practice to implement in my C# code, but a Java video nailed it for me. Now I understand when my teachers said "learn the idea, not the syntax".

  • @pranavnyavanandi9710

    @pranavnyavanandi9710

    2 жыл бұрын

    Language-agnostic as they say.

  • @AhmedMusrin
    @AhmedMusrin2 жыл бұрын

    We had to implement the 2nd part of your video(with grades instead of cereal) as part of my exam(on paper). Without you, I would not have gotten it correct. Thank you!!!

  • @larryd9577
    @larryd95772 жыл бұрын

    The mutability of Enum fields is a nugget of wisdom, which i didn't anticipated. Thanks!

  • @amitamlani6285
    @amitamlani628520 күн бұрын

    I am trying to improve my proficiency in Java. I found your video very insightful and it allowed me to practice and adapt new coding immediately. I found the enum concept quite difficult to adapt into real usage, whilst looking at numerous other sources. Its application in code is making much better sense now with a strong example.

  • @micleh
    @micleh2 жыл бұрын

    Hi. I've only recently become aware of your KZread channel, and I wonder why the KZread algorithm hasn't recommended your channel earlier. I like your succinct videos a lot, and they are superbly suited for my computer science school courses, since Java is the language students learn in higher education in Germany. Thanks a lot for the high-quality content.

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    @thalibmuhammad9519

    Жыл бұрын

    you can help by like and subscribe, that boost the youtube algorithm

  • @mahdinouira3261

    @mahdinouira3261

    Жыл бұрын

    it could be because you are subscribed to many channels, try using two account (it can provide SOME of what you need )

  • @karlcossaboon7072
    @karlcossaboon70726 ай бұрын

    Ridiculously helpful. As well as short simple and to the point. thanks.

  • @gabrielfono844
    @gabrielfono844 Жыл бұрын

    sir thanks so much I really appreciate I taught myself frontend development two years ago and I got hired recently as backend engineer. since I recently started learning java , I was struggling on something on my assignment and this video basically explain everything. your example is similar to the problem I have . I right away subscribe and will recommend this channel to my friend I want to say thank again

  • @DaBestOhYeah
    @DaBestOhYeah Жыл бұрын

    I am so glad that whenever I don't understand something in java, your videos are top on the list!!

  • @sss_az1063
    @sss_az10632 жыл бұрын

    You’re making my life much easier thank you so much man i really appreciate you

  • @juliock-y3w
    @juliock-y3w8 ай бұрын

    Man your videos are so clear even to me, who can't speak english at all

  • @CodeMonkeyy
    @CodeMonkeyy6 ай бұрын

    Your videos are fantastic! Well thought out and prepared. Easy to understand for beginners. Best out here on KZread

  • @codewithankush9753
    @codewithankush97532 жыл бұрын

    Please make Java development full course, they way you explain it's really easy to get understand concept. Thank you

  • @valoriebroderick
    @valoriebroderick Жыл бұрын

    These tutorials are amazingly clear and understandable. I'm so grateful because that's not always the case with coding tutorials.

  • @Sollace
    @Sollace2 жыл бұрын

    1:40 -It's also convention to have one per line, and- (edit: ah you did this later) you don't need the semi-colon if you are not planning on adding any other code to your enum. Edit: 3:09 My understanding is that every time you call Enum#values() it returns a new instance of the array (this is done for security reasons so people can't modify the underlying values array), so as an optimisation you would normally cache this array somewhere if you're going to be using it a lot.

  • @pranavnyavanandi9710

    @pranavnyavanandi9710

    2 жыл бұрын

    Impressive bro, really liked your second tip.

  • @HatTrick4030
    @HatTrick4030 Жыл бұрын

    Amazing! now I don't have to watch a 30 minutes of enum video tutorial again on a purchased bootcamp on Udemy. just simple and and understandable. all that matters to us is to understand the syntax of a new lesson and master it and then we can build our projects with details ourselves. the problem with other instructors is that they involve too many peripherals to the main lesson and we understand all except the main topic :D

  • @muhendis_
    @muhendis_7 ай бұрын

    ctrl shift x = this was an awesome knowledge 😄🙏🏻

  • @HimanshuGupta-jx4nk
    @HimanshuGupta-jx4nk Жыл бұрын

    I understood it is more like a class which contains its own instance fields as static. for example class test{ static test monday = new test(); static test tuesday = new test();} Thank you very much!!!!!!!

  • @Habijob
    @Habijob2 жыл бұрын

    Bless you and your video(s). I started studying for the OCA and your videos are a big help in understanding the dry text from the book in minutes (literally), haha.

  • @janfeyen592
    @janfeyen592 Жыл бұрын

    Hey, you may not remember me, but I watched one of your I/O java videos a couple of weeks back and I just wanted to say thanks for the clear straight forward but most importantly amazing Java tutorials you've put out

  • @faroukmatamir
    @faroukmatamir2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you John, please keep going with new videos and don't stop, I am learning a lot from you....

  • @122fathom2
    @122fathom22 жыл бұрын

    really short and clear, brilliant.....

  • @Wilespro1
    @Wilespro13 ай бұрын

    Man the greatest tutorial of all time

  • @hangyeollee-creuset5108
    @hangyeollee-creuset51082 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos. John. Thank you so much for making the videos. It is pleasure to see you having fun in Java.

  • @santuyou1
    @santuyou12 жыл бұрын

    Clear and crisp. Thanks for video. Subscribed.

  • @eravil8882
    @eravil88822 жыл бұрын

    Hi sir, I've finished the core of java and I am now practicing it daily, and I started to explore more on advanced level and I'm going to start it in java enums. Thank u sir for sharing this. I'm really looking forward for your future videos about java. New Subscriber here!

  • @jetspray3

    @jetspray3

    2 жыл бұрын

    Where do you go to practice java?

  • @pranavnyavanandi9710

    @pranavnyavanandi9710

    2 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean practicing it daily? How are you doing that?

  • @MrDarshD
    @MrDarshD2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing! Love the names you give to them and also the shortcut tips!

  • @jarveyd8660
    @jarveyd86602 жыл бұрын

    You broke it down really well!!

  • @flaviuvanca9289
    @flaviuvanca92892 жыл бұрын

    Hi John, another nice thing about enums is that you can use abstract methods to customize the constants :)

  • @Drogo681
    @Drogo6812 жыл бұрын

    Straight to the point, and very pedagogical. I have already subscribed, but I like is coming right up.

  • @Coccoutube
    @Coccoutube Жыл бұрын

    Thanks as always John! My knowledge++

  • @limiakejelu
    @limiakejelu Жыл бұрын

    One thing about John is he picks the right examples that makes one watch and never forget the topic….In this case cereals 😂. Good job man 👍

  • @semilife
    @semilife2 жыл бұрын

    Nice on John, short clear and detailed.

  • @hanseuberalles5063
    @hanseuberalles50633 ай бұрын

    Loved that! Any tutorial for Strams please ?

  • @isaacweber7398
    @isaacweber73984 ай бұрын

    Much gooood John. God Bless you! Keep doing that. It's helping me a lot.

  • @seeulater8753
    @seeulater87538 ай бұрын

    Your videos help me a lot. Thank you so much!

  • @yourman8808
    @yourman88086 ай бұрын

    This man makes a boring lesson to a lesson to be a fun and more enjoyable lesson.

  • @OmarMendozaKS
    @OmarMendozaKS2 жыл бұрын

    What a heck of explanation man, moreover super creative using cereal, thank you

  • @chexblu
    @chexblu2 жыл бұрын

    How come this has so few views and likes. Excellent video mate, keep it up please!

  • @HuwJones
    @HuwJones2 жыл бұрын

    Something missing here is the importance or ordinality. As in most other languages implementing enums or ordinals the items in the enumeration have an ordinal value...the order in which the enumeration's items are defined IS SIGNIFICANT. This can create problems in a project if developers try to re-order the items later on...something which should not be done. This idea of ordinality also has repercussions when mapping to a database. Most databases map enums to a column using the ordinal value by default. Just don't forget the ordinality.

  • @pranavnyavanandi9710
    @pranavnyavanandi97102 жыл бұрын

    final is what makes something constant, and also immutable. If all the fields of a class are made final, then the state of that class is unmodifiable. Which makes the type immutable. At least this is my understanding of it. A handy tip, the data members held by a class/object are what constitute it's "state" and methods make up it's "behavior".

  • @mustapharaimilawal8053
    @mustapharaimilawal80535 ай бұрын

    Great tutorial, as always. Thank you sir.

  • @Pacvalham
    @Pacvalham2 жыл бұрын

    1:17 IntelliJ tells me that the semicolon is unnecessary, and the enum compiles with or without it; was it required in an earlier version of Java?

  • @yogeshvasudevan
    @yogeshvasudevan2 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation 👏👏..Thank you for the refresher👍👍🙏

  • @windz643
    @windz6432 жыл бұрын

    I love your way of teaching

  • @Metorrite
    @Metorrite6 ай бұрын

    4:32 - You thought we would not notice, but we did :) Real question, what design pattern do you use when you have enums that are constant values that need to contain a field that is an object whose internal values need to be changed across instances? For example, if you have different kinds of web input fields in an enum, and you know for certain the type of data type each field returns (String, int, boolean, array, etc) so you want to assign a corresponding validation strategy to each, however, in the strategy maybe you want to validate different values against the result across different input fields of the same type. This is my particular problem however i hope this represents the underlying design question i have!

  • @Cablur
    @Cablur Жыл бұрын

    Ohh, I really like your sense of humor and how you explain things, even though it was a bit fast. But maybe I'm just tired^^ Anyways, thank you for this great video!

  • @jooncco
    @jooncco2 жыл бұрын

    Helpful as always

  • @jonathanalcantara7347
    @jonathanalcantara73472 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation, thanks!

  • @ToshiroKiss
    @ToshiroKiss Жыл бұрын

    Dude, love your channel. saluds from Brazil

  • @bhaweshpandey4306
    @bhaweshpandey43062 жыл бұрын

    This was helpful 👍, thanks !!

  • @batsybats5591
    @batsybats55912 жыл бұрын

    Tysm for this video! I had watched another video on enums, but somehow errors were being thrown in my program and I didn't understand the purpose of enums, nor how to use them and now I think I have a clear basic understanding of them. Plus, I really want some cereals now lol

  • @KoryGraphic
    @KoryGraphic2 жыл бұрын

    This channel is pure trasure

  • @KH-hn3nu
    @KH-hn3nu Жыл бұрын

    Amazing break down John, thank you!... Now if only we can get you to reassess these gradings for deliciousness. Captain Crunch is 110/100 LOL!

  • @AtulRai
    @AtulRai2 жыл бұрын

    Hey John, thank you for sharing your experience. I have watched couple of videos and became the fan of your explanation. If you don't mind, may I know which theme you are using in your Eclipse IDE? it's looking cool.

  • @CodingWithJohn

    @CodingWithJohn

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's a plugin called Darkest Dark

  • @pranavnyavanandi9710

    @pranavnyavanandi9710

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CodingWithJohn Hello John. Could you make a video covering these things in eclipse like Maven, gradle, ant build, mylyn etc. ? Would be quite informative for beginners. Eclipse tends to overwhelm you with all these terms sometimes.

  • @kajimemashiro9686
    @kajimemashiro96862 жыл бұрын

    3:40: "plus now there´s more room for my beautiful face, here in the corner" I love you man

  • @greatjobbuddy
    @greatjobbuddy2 жыл бұрын

    These videos are so great.

  • @trantrungnghia9642
    @trantrungnghia9642 Жыл бұрын

    04:48 Sir, your explanation at this point is too good

  • @mahodaadikari4116
    @mahodaadikari41162 жыл бұрын

    Another simple and amazing explanation as always. ❤💯

  • @withgrowinginsanity198
    @withgrowinginsanity198 Жыл бұрын

    wow! A gold nuget of information. thanks a lot.

  • @mashooly_kr7192
    @mashooly_kr7192 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks it was really helpful!

  • @pranavmahajan4190
    @pranavmahajan41902 жыл бұрын

    You are totally awesome. I liked the way you explain

  • @anitaliberatore2272
    @anitaliberatore22722 жыл бұрын

    can you do a video about dependency injection?

  • @rishabhshah1218
    @rishabhshah12182 жыл бұрын

    Nice and quick tutorial. Thanks

  • @menaaziz27
    @menaaziz272 жыл бұрын

    I watch all your videos even though I know about the video .. keep it up john!

  • @CodingWithJohn

    @CodingWithJohn

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ha, well thank you!

  • @jvsnyc

    @jvsnyc

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too. I love seeing how he describes it in such a short time without saying anything flat-out wrong which would be so easy to do when trying to make really short videos.

  • @lolcrafter9524
    @lolcrafter95247 ай бұрын

    W video, probably saves me from a negative grade :)

  • @starry6685
    @starry66852 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the videos!

  • @uchihalayan3435
    @uchihalayan343510 ай бұрын

    thank you brother this was helpful

  • @Hughsie28
    @Hughsie282 жыл бұрын

    Surprised you didn't include the abstract methods in the ENUM's as another way to give them more features, ie: public enum Test { MY_VALUE_NAME { public String myReadableValue() { return "My Value Name!"; } }; public abstract String myReadableValue(); } usage: Test.MY_VALUE_NAME.myReadableValue(); Output: "My Value Name!"

  • @mikaznavodya7277
    @mikaznavodya72777 ай бұрын

    Thank you, your explanations are very clear ❤

  • @Imperfectwow
    @Imperfectwow2 жыл бұрын

    Great content John thanks

  • @gregdawe2786
    @gregdawe27869 ай бұрын

    Holy broken sewer pipe batman, thank you. I've been trying to figure out how to use enums for the past few hours. THANK YOU!!!

  • @ManhPhuGiang
    @ManhPhuGiang Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, great video.

  • @mouadaittalebali3066
    @mouadaittalebali30662 жыл бұрын

    Can not thank you enough!🙏

  • @rajeshg3570
    @rajeshg35702 жыл бұрын

    This is simple and precise...may be some additional details like getting the ENUM by passing a value like deliciousness would be great

  • @rajeshg3570

    @rajeshg3570

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hi John, Could you please add an example video to see how to use switch case with enums

  • @kalyankumar8629
    @kalyankumar8629 Жыл бұрын

    Good toturial Mr.john

  • @navinbusiness2729
    @navinbusiness2729 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks john it's more useful

  • @pietro-study
    @pietro-study2 жыл бұрын

    love ur tutorials! Very quick, u cover most of it and it's fcking understandable!

  • @Devivl
    @Devivl Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much, John! 🙂

  • @David-hl1wo
    @David-hl1wo2 жыл бұрын

    Very controversial video.

  • @BunnyboyCarrot
    @BunnyboyCarrot Жыл бұрын

    Nice and concise, awesome video!

  • @user-gf2jg4df5w
    @user-gf2jg4df5w2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, You are the best.

  • @gergelynemeth8244
    @gergelynemeth82442 жыл бұрын

    Hey Jon, great video as always, love the way you explain things, makes it very easy to learn. Currently I'm working on a shift/rota planning cli app, just to practice several topics at the same time. I have some methods which return the days of current week and coming week as a list just to make it easier/faster to select the desired day to plan. My question would be: is it possible to use these methods dynamically to assign the dates to the enum values(mon-sun) every time the app is run? If so what would be a good way to do that?

  • @lindascoon4652
    @lindascoon46522 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos. Could you make some videos on a common java frameworks like springboot, gradle, maven etc. I can code in java now but it's like a completely new language when you have to use frameworks.

  • @4inchezz199
    @4inchezz1992 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man, this actually helped me a lot :D

  • @johnsonchang4799
    @johnsonchang479912 күн бұрын

    Thank you very much~~!

  • @user-zd3iw9ek7r
    @user-zd3iw9ek7r9 ай бұрын

    Thanks for your sharing

  • @aligooya8514
    @aligooya8514 Жыл бұрын

    You are born a teacher! did you know that?

  • @lokeshvenkatesan
    @lokeshvenkatesan Жыл бұрын

    Can you please make a video of Notify, NotifyAll and Wait. Thanks!

  • @dllm3tommy741
    @dllm3tommy741 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the video

  • @ousmanetall1286
    @ousmanetall12868 ай бұрын

    All this programming stuffs make me have a headache, but anyway it's fun!

  • @DarkenedPossession
    @DarkenedPossession2 жыл бұрын

    many thanks dude !!

  • @mub03
    @mub0311 ай бұрын

    Awesome Video!

  • @komalprasad6309
    @komalprasad6309 Жыл бұрын

    Could you add Java certification series as well.

  • @MrNoahsamen
    @MrNoahsamen Жыл бұрын

    If you declare a Constant Enum the semicolon is optional

  • @karyoplasma
    @karyoplasma2 жыл бұрын

    OK, I'm just gonna confess my sin: I dev'd with Java for a very long time and I still sometimes use enums for stuff I should better be using a database. They are just so handy. Screw the inefficiency large enums create because of overhead, I wanna make life easy for me and I like switch statements lol

  • @pranavnyavanandi9710

    @pranavnyavanandi9710

    2 жыл бұрын

    haha

  • @lucashenaoserna2455
    @lucashenaoserna2455 Жыл бұрын

    you could also set the level of delicousness to private

  • @MarkWesley
    @MarkWesley Жыл бұрын

    50/50 mix of Reese's Puffs and Cocoa Puffs for the win!

  • @CodingWithJohn

    @CodingWithJohn

    Жыл бұрын

    This is an interesting proposal. But doesn't that just dilute the peanut-butteriness of the cereal by adding additional chocolate to the already existing perfect mix of peanut butter and chocolate that is the Reese's Puff's recipe?

  • @MarkWesley

    @MarkWesley

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CodingWithJohn Excellent point. 😃

  • @Rockyzach88
    @Rockyzach88 Жыл бұрын

    So an enum is like a conglomeration of maps or dictionaries for a specific list of things?