The Foojay Java in Education Catalog is a community-driven catalog of Java learning resources for students, educators, coding clubs, and developers. This repository is hosted under Foojay.io – Friends of OpenJDK and maintained by the Java community.
- Single
index.htmlfile (HTML + inline CSS, no build step) - Dark theme with card-based layout
- Sticky nav, hero section, then content sections separated by dividers
- Responsive: cards collapse to single column on mobile
- Preserve the ordering in this spec
- Integrate the Foojay logo
foojay-logo.pngin the hero section with maximum width and height of 150px, maintaining aspect ratio. Place it to the left of the title on desktop, and above the title on mobile. - Hero section: make subtitle bigger then description
- Dark background (
#00131B), card surfaces (#132733), accent blue (#3562E5), accent cyan (#4FC3F7), accent green (#5EB761), accent orange (#F0981B) - Cards have hover effects (border highlight, slight lift)
- Badge types:
badge-framework(blue),badge-inference(cyan),badge-assistant(orange),badge-resource(green) - Where possible use icons for links - for blog or other use a world / www icon. don't use text labels.
- In a given section, use different colors for different badge types.
- Clickable cards: If a card has a single primary destination (e.g. resource cards with one link), make the entire card an
<a>tag so clicking anywhere on the card navigates. Keep secondary icon links overlaid on top. - Card titles as links: For cards with multiple links (frameworks, tools), make the card
h3title a clickable link to the primary resource. For all the links, add an icon + plus the link text. Style title links with an underline on hover. - Inline text links: Any link within body text or descriptions should be underlined.
- Don't mislead: Only apply hover lift/border effects to cards that are actually clickable. Non-clickable cards should still have a subtle hover border but no translateY lift.
- Link to new tab: All links should open in a new tab (
target="_blank") to keep users on the catalog site.
- Title: "Foojay Java in Education Catalog" (gradient text on "Java in Education")
- Subtitle: "A community-driven catalog of Java learning resources with websites, tutorials, videos, books, and tools for students, educators, coding clubs, and developers."
- Description:
- The goal is to provide an open, collaborative hub for students, educators, and developers to discover the best Java learning content for teaching, self-learning, and classroom use.
- This project is a call for the community to collaborate, to show that Java is still strong, and to highlight the numerous resources available for learning or teaching Java today.
- Community-curated Java learning resources. Contributions are welcome on GitHub!
- Badges: Website
- Description: Community-curated wiki about Java teaching and educational initiatives. Maintained by the JCP (Java Community Process) community.
- Links: Wiki
- Badges: Website
- Description: Foojay is a central resource for the Java community’s daily information needs, a place for friends of OpenJDK, and a community platform for the Java ecosystem, bringing together and helping Java professionals everywhere.
- Links: Foojay.io
- Badges: Website
- Description: Java has evolved. Your code can too. A collection of modern Java code snippets. Every old Java pattern next to its clean, modern replacement — side by side.
- Links: java.evolved
- Badges: Website
- Description: A collection of tutorials on how to get started with Java, getting to know the Java language, and more.
- Links: Website
- Badges: Website
- Description: A collection of tutorials on how to get started with Jakarta EE.
- Links: Website
- Badges: Tutorial, Video
- Description: On Foojay.io: Step-by-step instructions to install Java on Windows, Linux, and macOS. And 10 short lessons to learn the very basics of the Java programming language.
- Links: Website
- Badges: Video
- Description: A video tutorial on how to create and run a simple Java application that prints Hello, World! to the system output.
- Links: Video
- Badges: Video
- Description: A written tutorial on how to create, build, run and package a simple Java application.
- Links: Website
- Badges: Tutorial
- Description: Installing and Fundamentals.
- Links: Repository:
- Badges: Tutorial
- Description: A step-by-step tutorial to go from a coding apprentice to a Game master of AI agent orchestration.
- Links: Repository
- Badges: Parents, Teaching
- Description: Book by Cassandra Chin: Introduce your children to programming at an early age and see how nurturing their interest can significantly contribute to their future success. This book offers creative, kid-friendly tools and projects to ignite childhood curiosity, all while confronting early-age gender biases in tech and supplementing the lack of creative and diverse tech curriculum in schools.
- Links: Amazon
- Badges: Raspberry Pi
- Description: eBook by Frank Delporte: Controlling physical things with some lines of code is magic! This book includes a lot of information, history about Java itself, and how to install and use Java on the Raspberry Pi to interact with electronic components.
- Links:
- Badges: Tutorial
- Description: How to do Minecraft modding with two different tools:
- Forge: client-side modding, which only works if you have the mod installed. With Forge, you can do lots of cool things like making new blocks, items, mobs, and even biomes and dimensions.
- Spigot: server-side modding, anyone who connects to the server can enjoy the mods installed. Most big servers, like Mineplex and Hypixel, are Spigot servers.
- Links: Repository
- Badges: Raspberry Pi
- Description: Want to get started with Java programming on the Raspberry Pi? JBang is a great way to create your first program to control electronic components connected to a Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins.
- Links:
Foojay Java in Education Catalog. Contributions welcome on GitHub.
This website and the workflow are based on the work done by James Ward for ai4jvm.com.