natefico

I am just starting to learn Java. Really I want to be a computer programmer and well figure ill try right now.
Well what books should I read?
Is there a complete online sorce to teaching java?

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Nano

there's a lot of sources for example hxxp://chortle.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/index.html, and I believe there's website that has tutorials from basic. Use google.

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Mjordan2nd

We use Java Programming : Introductory Published by Course Technology, Inc.
by Joyce Farrell at school, which I think is pretty good. Also, check out java.sun.com. They have some good stuff their.

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EdSalamander

Yes indeed. The java site has great tutorials. That's where I'd learned swing (which is Java's GUI package). This seems a natural place to start...

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ted/index.html

And when you're done with that, just hit the "Start of Tutorial" link at the top of the page to get to a listing of their other tutorials

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try this one. it's very helpful for beginners, and you can skip around topics if you want. it's off of www.programmingtutorials.com

http://chortle.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/CS151/cs151java.html

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Java site, a good beginning tutorial and API specs.

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natefico

Thank you guys. I also have Sam's Tech Yourself Java 2 in 21 days. Anyone have any comments about this book?

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Mjordan2nd

I haven't seen it, but I've generally been pleased with Sams' books.

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natefico

Thanks, as well have I.

I heard that I should considered learning C as well. For the purpose that C is closely intergreated with hardware and it would help me make Java programes that would run faster and in general better. If I where to learn just Java then most likly I would find myself making programmes that would run not to their best of ability because I would not have the knowledge between programes and hardware.

To me this makes sense, but I am not too sure if it is indeed accurate. You guys think such statements are true and anything to add?

P.S. How do I edit the topic name? Can't find edit thing by first post : /

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Mjordan2nd

I always thought the edit button for the first post would do it, but if not, let me know what you want me to change the title to, and I think I could do it.

Now, C is a great language, and yes, it allows you to program at a much lower level than Java can, but that doesn't take away from Java's greatness. Java is a great language to learn, in my opinion. I'm not exactly sure how or if C programs could make your code better in Java. For the most part, you wouldn't really need to. Given, C code is considerably faster, but on today's machines it doesn't really matter for the most part. I've never seen or used C to make my Java code "better."

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