Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!news.alt.net!news.kjsl.com!news.xcski.com!ncf.ca!not-for-mail From: William Colls Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java tools and books Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:05:11 -0400 Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Lines: 19 Sender: ft787@cpe002369f5842a-cm0012c9db4d68.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe002369f5842a-cm0012c9db4d68.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: theodyn.ncf.ca 1308747862 16442 99.224.92.37 (22 Jun 2011 13:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Jun 2011 13:04:22 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5522 On 11-06-22 07:12 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > On 11-06-21 11:37 PM, William Colls wrote: >> >> I am just getting into the java world, and I am looking to mine the >> collected wisdom of the group for some suggestions. > > What world are you leaving? There's a set of suggestions for complete > novice programmers, and a similar but not identical set of suggestions > for folks who are already experienced with other languages. I have been programming for the last 25 years. I started with assembler language on early micro-processors (8088, 8086, z80, 8051 etc). then some Business Basic. for the last 15 years or so, almost exclusively with Progress RDMS and its associated Advanced Business Language. So mostly traditional procedural orient languages. The big change for me is the move to OO. [SNIP]