John Smiley's Learn to Program with Java is an excellent book. A friend with no prior programming experience is working through it now and finding it delightful.<BR><BR>Phil ••• Quote Report D ...

For this Reactive Java emag, InfoQ has we curated a series of articles to help developers hit the ground running with a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental reactive concepts.

I'm looking for a book, a GOOD book, that details the Java language starting with the basics, or starting with only ASCII programs, and moving up into the Java GUI environment. Any suggestions?

JBoss Weld CDI for Java Platform is a relatively short book (approximately 100 "main" pages) that introduces JBoss Weld , which it describes as "the open source reference implementation" of Java ...