Teaching myself Java
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Teaching myself Java
posted on Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:49 pm
I've decided to start teaching myself Java. Does anyone have any links to some free tutorials that are any good? Also, if anyone has any book suggestions, please mention those too. I don't have a lot of programming experience, so I'm pretty much starting from scratch. Thanks for your time.
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posted on Mon Apr 05, 2004 11:40 pm
I always scrounge around for the books on the second latest version of the language, because they always seem to go for $5 or so. In my experience most books are decent, but it's only in using the language consistently that you become an expert.
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posted on Tue Apr 06, 2004 5:14 am
http://www.programmingtutorials.com/java.aspx
http://oopweb.com/Java/Documents/IntroT ... rames.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
All excellent resources for learning Java.
http://oopweb.com/Java/Documents/IntroT ... rames.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
All excellent resources for learning Java.
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posted on Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:17 pm
Thanks a bunch guys. 
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posted on Wed Apr 07, 2004 7:28 am
On the same topic...is there a stripped version of the compiler somewhere for download? The tutorial does say that you should download the JRK from Sun which is 100mb++.
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posted on Wed Apr 07, 2004 7:24 pm
http://sep.stanford.edu/sep/jon/family/jos/oop/oop1.htm
That's a good place to start if you're not too hot on Object-Orientated Philosophy. Talks about it metaphorically wrt novel writers...
As for books, "Big Java" isn't bad, but it is a bit thick... Very thorough and some useful background stuff as well I suppose... I'll dig out the ISBN when I get back to uni at some point...
Hope that helps, any questions, you know where we are
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That's a good place to start if you're not too hot on Object-Orientated Philosophy. Talks about it metaphorically wrt novel writers...
As for books, "Big Java" isn't bad, but it is a bit thick... Very thorough and some useful background stuff as well I suppose... I'll dig out the ISBN when I get back to uni at some point...
Hope that helps, any questions, you know where we are
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posted on Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:05 am
Thanks, the tutorial is one of the best that I have seen so far on the subject.
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