s4x0r

Hello. I hope I'm not being a bother by asking this. I would love to get into modding, but I am not proficient enough in Java to start. I would like to know how the modding community learned Java. I've tried online tutorials, but I cannot seem to find one for me. The official documentation seems like too much to take in that I forget it soon afterwards,and the video tutorials that I've found seem to go too slow for me. Maybe I'm a little ADD, but it's hard for me to learn from reading off of a screen. So if you are self-taught, I would like to know what methods you have used to learn. I do hope that I'm posting this in the right place, and I apologize if this question as already been asked by a million other people. Thank you for your time.