Can anyone recomend a book or two. My class starts Java Programming in the next semester and I'm loking to get a jump start on it. I've done some programming in Visual Basic and HTML but I haven't ...

This book definitely caters to the advanced user, and is not for the faint of heart. You are expected to have a good grasp of object-oriented programming and the Java programming language ...

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?

I acquired this book to add to my every growing list of programming and ... from there I self-taught myself C and Java programming but quickly forgot everything I learned. Fast forward 10+ years to ...

by converting an example of object-oriented Java code to its functional equivalent. I found the book Introduction to Functional Programming (Richard Bird and Philip Wadler, Prentice Hall ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.