Can someone please help me get started with JAVA

[K.I.L.E.R]

I was looking around Sun's website and the like and when looking through tutorials, they either had not enough info or treated me like a complete idiot like I've never done any form of programming before.

I'm a JAVA newbie and would like to get started.
Another annoying thing is that console inputs in JAVA are non-existent.

I downloaded Java 2 standard edition.

 

[Saem]

Actually, you can get some free learning from ... well I won't advertise it, but I'll pm you as to where you could go.

 

[Anonymous]

Do a search for a free Java-book called Thinking in Java. It's a good book if you have done some coding before with C++. Overall, I think you should buy a decent book and start with that.

 

[Miksu]

Do a search for a free Java-book called Thinking in Java. It's a good book if you have done some coding before with C++. Overall, I think you should buy a decent book and start with that.

Hmh, didn't know that you can post to this forum without logging in. Well, that was written by me.

 

[notAFanB]

try 'Computer Science Using Java' or any java startup text. Since ur proficient in C++ by now u should pick it up in no time.

 

[Snyder]

Do a search for a free Java-book called Thinking in Java. It's a good book if you have done some coding before with C++. Overall, I think you should buy a decent book and start with that.

www.bruceeckel.com

It's really great, one of the best books you can get for learning Java.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thanks guys. I just need to locate a good bookstore. Would any ordinary bookstore have those books?

 

[Miksu]

If you have an acces to Visa, I think you should try Amazon. It has a great selection of programming-books. Most of the "normal" bookstores only have these "Beginner's guide to Word97"-thingies and it can be hard to find anything relating to programming.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I don't have any credit cards and my mum refuses to spend money across the internet.

 

[gokickrocks]

I'm a JAVA newbie and would like to get started.
Another annoying thing is that console inputs in JAVA are non-existent.

java can do console inputs...
you can use System.in.read(), InputStreamReader(System.in), or BufferedReader depending on what you want to input

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thanks, but I'm doing well with Swing at the moment.
My Java knowledge has grown substantially over the weeks of this post.

Try this:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ksaho/Algorithm/JAVA/sillyAliasCrypt.jar

Just double click to run.

 

[Fox5]

Doesn't work....the jar file opens as an archive(I'm not familiar with jar files) and I tried putting it into a java compiler(the .java file) and got an exception in thread main. It's probably something easily fixed, but I barely know java and haven't coded in it for like a year, plus I'm feeling lazy right now.

 

[Saem]

Try, java sillyAliasCrypt or java sillyAliasCrypt.jar at the command line.

As for the exception, that's because your class path isn't set.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Class path should be set as I had no errors or problems with it.

 

[Deepak]

KILER we are in same boat, I also a newbie in JAVA.....

 

[Natoma]

O'Reilly is your friend.

http://java.oreilly.com/

 

[bloodbob]

try
java.exe -jar sillyAliasCrypt.jar sillyAliasCrypt

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Thanks guys.

Oh and Bloodbob, you are a couple of months late.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ksaho/Algorithm/JAVA/