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Easiest Way to learn Java


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no; go read your book, work on the exercise, eventually you will get a hang on it (or not, then you know you should change major)

but eclipse java is a pretty good platform for beginner

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I agree in that you do not need a book to learn, if you however feel book will help you, I have heard "Head-First Java" is one of the best.

In all honesty I think you would have to try really hard to find a "bad" way to learn a programming language. All you need is determination. No amount of books and guides will magically grant you that.

Edit: Typos

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I studied a first year course on Java last semester, and I've nearly completed this semester's one on algorithms. The books we used are 'Java Foundations: Introduction to Program Design & Data Structures" for the first, beginner course, and "Objects, Abstraction, Data Structures and Design using Java version 5.0" for the second. I recommend them both quite happily, and I would also recommend using a book. They provide excellent tests for you to work through to drill it into your memory, so yep (Y) Hope that helps! Feel free to PM with any other questions :)

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In our Java module, we had a 'handbook' which the lecturer went through. He'd written the handbook himself, but it included literally everything we needed to know and explained it pretty well. Don't you have something like that from your uni/college? If so, it may be that the handbook alone is enough :)

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Calum's right, if you can get something like that (we had a course reader which wasn't like that, just contained basic notes) then that's just as good (Y) Aside from the textbooks, we were given tutorial material to work through and it was good :)

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This tutorial looks awesome especially if Java is your first programming language: http://math.hws.edu/javanotes/

As for examples, you'll get more as you go forward, but I guess all beginner tutorials have to start with a lot of explanations because at this point, code doesn't mean much.

Once you know some basics, though, fire up your IDE (Netbeans, Eclipse?) and start messing around, that's essential.

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A few things,

- Pay attention in class. (I fail at this part)

- Get a Java book (I have The Java Programming Language, Fourth Edition)

- Get a Highlighter. Read (I fail at this part). Highlight important stuff.

- In my UNI, we have a lab section where you can ask questions form the TA and also do stuff.

- google - honestly, google.

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