Re: New to Java - Books Recommendation Please
Miles wrote:
If anyone can offer suggestions on a couple of books, I'd appreciate
it. As I
mentioned, I have programming experience so I was thinking that
something with a
bit above beginning Java experience and another one targeted towards
intermediate skills would be great to get me started.
_Learning Java_ by O'Reilly is a good first start. It has basics, but
it also has a lot of more advanced material. I still use it as a
reference and a guide for implementation even though I think I'm well
past the learning stage. It has, for example, one of the better
explanations of generics that I've found.
The other place to go for learning is JavaPassion.com. This is a
website run by a Sun researcher that offers free online classes on
various Java related subjects. There's a basic Java course, which I
found useful just because it forced me to write code and get familiar
with the language. Some of the lessons were pretty remedial for me but
I always managed to learn something, even if it was just some
productivity feature of the IDE, NetBeans.
There's also a lot of related stuff on JavaPassion. The web programming
course offers an introduction to a lot of technologies that are not Java
(AJAX, Dojo, JMaki, DHTML, JSF, GWT, Jason, etc.) and shows how they can
be used with a Java/J2EE website. It was very informative, and much
easier than trying to find them all on my own. I'd recommend that class
as well, once you get the basics down.