Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Beginner Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 20:04:48 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <33e782a9-792d-44f1-ab5f-4cdc2a7b8174@googlegroups.com> <3947fb73-17e0-47f7-95d3-c7d70d8fa95b@googlegroups.com> <4d91a1c6-e634-466e-9e67-e200b061d79c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: NIM2IeSPVd0kE3mU1mieXw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32503 On 8/31/2015 1:08 PM, Lew wrote: > On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 6:27:34 AM UTC-7, e.d.pro...@gmail.com > wrote: >> On Monday, August 31, 2015 at 8:39:23 AM UTC-4, arya....@gmail.com >> 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 >> >> Do you know anything about any other languages? I would recommend >> starting at the beginning of the official tutorial, which is free. >> If you have trouble learning on your own you can pay someone to >> help you. >> >> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html > > A great second book, after the Tutorial, is _Effective Java_, by > Joshua Bloch. It is definitely a good book. But I think that the reader will benefit a lot more from the book if having spend a good chunk of time programming in Java (maybe 500+ hours) before reading it. Arne