X-Received: by 10.224.207.2 with SMTP id fw2mr4950726qab.6.1364788859434; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:00:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.60.1 with SMTP id d1mr425297igr.6.1364788859398; Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!t2no28708695qal.0!news-out.google.com!v17ni6816qad.0!nntp.google.com!ca1no19285276qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:00:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.28.149.29; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.28.149.29 References: <68eb3daf-27a2-4fe0-a457-69d6744d1f4e@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <21ef2b59-993b-4203-aa6a-fdb56a4e8fff@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Still Relevant: Original Gosling/McGilton Java White Paper? From: Lew Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:00:59 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.help:2638 themattfella wrote: > Lew wrote: >> I would start with the Java tutorials on the Oracle website and work from there. > > Yes, I found http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html, and it's > pretty bad. Not what I would call textbook quality. Well, at least they'll have accurate information. And different tutorials go into different depth. Have you read them all? IBM's Developerworks site has a Java tree that is just full of useful stuff. Read _Effective Java_ by Joshua Bloch. Study it. Also there is much useful material at http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Java+introduction -- Lew