Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Beginner Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <33e782a9-792d-44f1-ab5f-4cdc2a7b8174@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 10:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="1765"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qXgLlNJOzD4CZmk3XQowNQhxlgYkUGCw=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s9pEY5SWpdZu33FtMJ3eIpZBdyY= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32488 On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 05:39:12 -0700, arya.neelan wrote: > Am a beginner in java programming and would like to know about books > that can teach the basics of java. Keep in mind i know nothing about > java I taught myself Java with Ivor Horton's "Beginning Java". Its reasonably well written, covered all the topics I needed and provided decent example code and exercises. About the worst you can say is that the latest edition seems to be for Java 7. It may be relevant to this recommendation that I'd been writing C for at least 10 years when I picked up Java. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |