Best way to practice Java coding

[Harish V Gupta]

Hi guys,
what is the best way to practice coding?? "Do coding" will be the last answer that I expect.
I mean which book should I refer to, where can I get the exercises from and all that..

[John Jai]

You can yourself think of small requirements such as student grade system, store ERP software and try developing it.
Make sure the code follows Code Conventions and get it evaluated.

[Stephan van Hulst]

Games are great for practice.

Set yourself the challenge of making a game such as tic-tac-toe, quarto or even chess. Make your first task to be able to play the game through the console. Then try adding a GUI. You should also add multiplayer through LAN. Finally you can attempt writing a computer AI for the game.

You can learn a lot of different things from such a challenge. The project usually also becomes big enough that you have to learn how to structure it well.