Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Recommended books to learn Java Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:31:23 +0200 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net BxGvgQb2i5zBVVDIxIc1ZAvuUH50bOdu2JYtoJfjpb55fm8+ad0gUGalbts2UXIlY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:8feyyOTZq3eXoPRG1Kr/QuQtHtA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:18969 On 28.09.2012 16:52, Dan Kalish wrote: > I'm an experienced programmer and would like to learn Java, in order > to make myself more marketable. > > In particular, during the period 1968-1978 I worked years as a > Scientific Progammer, primarily programming in Fortran IV (66?). > Since then, I have occasionally programmed in SNOBOL, PASCAL, BASIC, > Plato, Fortran 95 and C++. Thus, I don't need a beginner's book. > > Any recommendations on books for learning Java? I'd first look at web resources, for example Sun's Java Tutorials. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ They cover most basic language features and also most important parts of the standard library (collections, IO). I'd say the language itself is fairly easy to grok - getting to know the standard library usually takes a bit more time if only because of the volume. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/