[ale] good website for novice learning Java ?

Rev. Johnny Healey rev.null at gmail.com
Thu Oct 12 11:15:36 EDT 2006


It's kind of funny that you mention both Bruce Eckel's Java book and Python,
since he seems to have hopped off of the java wagon and onto the Python
one.  Last I heard, he's writing a _Thinking_in_Python_ book.

-Johnny

On 10/12/06, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Grit your teeth and buy a book. I'm fond of Bruce Eckel's
> _Thinking_in_Java_ ( http://mindview.net/Books/TIJ4 ).
> Download and install the jdk from sun on your machine. Read all the
> chapters and do all the examples.
> I made a point of not using an IDE, so I could get a real feel for the
> language itself and how the naked compiler actually reacted to my errors.
> Most of the  stuff in Eckel's book is simple enough to  do from the command
> line, but  eventually you'll probably want to gain familiarity with  ANT (
> http://ant.apache.org/), which is the java equivalent of make(1).  If you
> do this early on it may well make your learning experience a little easier.
>
> BTW if you're a _complete_ novice and this is your first foray into
> programming or your first foray into Object Oriented programming, I'd
> recommend python ( http://www.python.org/ ) instead of java. It's got all
> the crunchy OO goodness of java but lacks many of Java's irritations (e.g.
> the explicit compile step, Java's wonky handling of the OS interface, Java's
> distinction between 'primitive types' and 'objects')  Of course, you may be
> constrained to learn java by --say-- a boss who's offering a carrot or
> threatening with a stick.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
>
> On 10/12/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > I know Sun has a ton of stuff re:java but I'm lookin' for
> > a beginner's site that is more navigable and transparent.
> >
> > Thank you once more,
> > Courtney
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