Missing Tutorial question...

[guru_101]

Good evening guys,

This topic is related to another topic i created asking for help...

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=488423

i asked for help but i got some good comments and some bad and some helpful and most of the people i asked said "how come your teacher has started you off with this and blahblahblah"...

Well, just to make things clear..i am a university student learning java in my first year and my module is called Programming Essentials, in this module i will be learning the following...


Input and Output
Variables: Processing Data Using Calculations
'if' statements
Loops
Using objects
Writing methods
Writing classes
Inheritance and other topics


I am currently on the Writing Methods this week, and i feel that i am going in the wrong direction if i really want to learn java....

I was wondering if this forum and its members can put me in the right direction on what to learn first, and after that. People said JOptionPane was bad...then tell me whats good!!

Direct me to books, i am ready to buy, ebooks work just as well. (videos perfect even!), hopefully i am not that much of a pain!


thnx a billion guys :)

[dlorde]

There's lot's of stuff out there online... everyone has their own opinion about what you should learn first, so don't expect consistent advice on that. The most comprehensive tutorials are Sun's own Java Tutorials (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html) - you can find the method stuff here (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/methods.html).

A good basics book is Thinking In Java (http://www.codeguru.com/java/tij/) by Bruce Eckel - the link is to a free version - not the latest, but good enough to learn. The official Thinking In Java site (http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/) is down atm, but it may only be temporary.

Google is your friend, but don't believe everything you read online (or in books, for that matter - e.g. steer clear of Herb Schildt's Java books).

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching...
J. Dewey