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[lowievalenzuela]

hi guys! hope you can help me with this one. i want to learn java programming. problem is i don't know where should i start. anybody can give me any reading materials, video tutorials or anything that can kick-start my java learning? i do have a basic understanding of programming but i want to specialize in java. any suggestions is very much welcome. thanks in advance.:thumbup:

[Roman Y]

Well the books I started with was
"Java: an introduction to Problem Solving & Programming" - by Walter Savitch and Frank M. Carrano great book, easy to understand, good examples and although it should only be usin Java to teach you general programming you learn a great deal about Java.
"Object Oriented programming in Java; a graphical approach" - by Kathryn E. Sanders and Andries van Dam. The book is ok, a bit hard to understand and stay with the flow of programming but it focuses on object oriented programming in java as the title suggests, and it uses good graphical solutions so you pick up good habits on programming GUI in java.

then there is a free approach... I think there is a channel on youtube called newBoston or something like that with Java tutorials. I checked a few and the guy making tutorials seems to be good.

[agnl666]

I would google tutorials and get familiar with the online java libraries because once you get the hang of things then it doesn't take much to search something up in these libraries and learn more. I understand where you are coming for, as I am still learning and its intimidating starting out. Or at least I found it was.

[zeroradius]

what do you mean by "general" If you don't know a whole lot about OO a good book (one i'm reading now actually) is Head First Java. It teaches you Java .... from the beginning, It assumes you know how to turn on a computer and thats about it. Great book for learning i give it 5/5.

[dbug]

There are some public lectures from Stanford University about programming methodology on youtube that might be interesting. Java is used as the language to implement the concepts. I think it's very easy to follow and might be a good introduction to Java and OO programming. Also, I think all material needed to follow these lectures is publicly available on the Stanford's web.

This is the first lecture: YouTube - Lecture 1 | Programming Methodology (Stanford).

[lowievalenzuela]

thanks everyone for the response. will take a look on all the references you suggested.:thumbup: