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From: Mike Barnard on 3 Jun 2010 15:41
Hi.

I'm interested in learning about Java programming. I'm suprised on
searching through this forum that there seems to be no other "how..."
threads so I'll start one.

I'm in the UK, employed with a family so have little time for college
courses. Not that I've found any near me anyway. I want to write a
desktop application that is cross platform and won't need high speed
(C++) code running so Java seems ideal. I have the JDK and netbeans
6.8 on my PC, now I need lessons.

The java website has Greenfoot which seems of no use to me. I haven't
looked at the others yet as the preamble says they expect prior
programming experience or teaching.

The books on Amazon seem to be about 10 years out of date and the new
ones have reviews that say they are full of old info.

Web tutorials are notorious for teaching bad practices, so I
understand but they can't be all bad, can they.

So, reccomendations for a way to learn Jave, please? Properly.

Thanks.

Mike.
From: Mike Barnard on 3 Jun 2010 15:47
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:41:35 +0100, Mike Barnard
<m.barnard.trousers(a)thunderin.co.uk> wrote:

Pardon the spelling mistakes.

Tutorials
Java
From: Mike Barnard on 4 Jun 2010 04:18
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:41:35 +0100, Mike Barnard
<m.barnard.trousers(a)thunderin.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi.

Here it's 9 am and I'm late for work, but I just wanted to give a big
thanks to you all for your reccomendations. I'll look through them
tonight and choose something. I have been considering the Head First
book on Java, but even it's second edition is nearly 6 years old and
based on an older version of Java. Are there NO up to date books?

I have never been taught how to program but I have played with Basic
on the Atari (How long ago?!) and Delphi 5 about 10 years ago from
books so I at least know what a variable is.

Mike.
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