java programming

[dreamer]

i'm learning basic java on my course and it requires a lot of extra reading (to help with understanding it). anyone who knows java give me some tips/ links to good tutorials? any background research would help a load. thanks

[JinXD]

I'm guessing this should have been posted here (http://www.emutalk.net/forumdisplay.php?f=30), but never mind.

I've never actually used any online tutorials, all the material I have required was supplied to me by the lecturer(s) on my course. I'd advise speaking to your course leader/lecturer for advise on a suitable book that you could get from the library.

Sorry I can't help more, although the Sun site is quite useful.....http://www.sun.com/

[GbaGuy]

I found "Java in A Nutshell" (0596002831 ISBN) to be quite good.

[Eagle]

http://www.samspublishing.com/

Sams Publishing makes THE best computer school books in existance. I've never found one that wasnt easy to understand.

[Hacktarux]

IMO, you only need to have very basic knowledge of the syntax and the sun's documentation and tutorials. When you have that, do the usual useless programs that you do when you learn a language. I've always found examples for nearly everything on sun's tutorial.

[Jaz]

I've got some very tasty PDF tutorials on my PC. I'll attach them when I return home from Uni dude.

[Jaz]

I've got some very tasty PDF tutorials on my PC. I'll attach them when I return home from Uni dude.

Here we go. These should help you get started. I've got some advanced tutorials too, but they're about 40mb in size each and I don't think Marty will be too happy in hosting them. ;)

[Eagle]

Here we go. These should help you get started. I've got some advanced tutorials too, but they're about 40mb in size each and I don't think Marty will be too happy in hosting them. ;)

I believe he said Java, not JavaScript. Two completely different things.

[Jaz]

Didn't read it properly. My bad.

[smcd]

http://www.samspublishing.com/

Sams Publishing makes THE best computer school books in existance. I've never found one that wasnt easy to understand.

I hope you're kidding :happy: It's been my experience that SAMS books are riddled with errors and misprints. They might be easy to understand, but overall (with the exception of ones such as "C Unleashed") they seem to be inferior to those by say, O'Reilly.

You can get a few Java books (free, legal) online from http://mindview.net/Books Also, the official Sun published books on Java are quite nice... though you can essentially get all you need from the documentation and tutorials section on http://java.sun.com/

[dreamer]

ah, no i meant 'JavaScript' sorry! yep thanks for the tut's jaz!

[Eagle]

ah, no i meant 'JavaScript' sorry! yep thanks for the tut's jaz!


Ah ok, you dont need a book for JS, thats easy a pie.