Hello. I am brand new to programming. I have been designing web sites for about 2 years now, and I have heard that Java is the wave of the future. I went out and bought the Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 days, and am finding it very informative. Here is my question. I tought myself HTML by using wysiwyg editors, then edditing the code. I learn very fast that way. I want to learn to write web applets, and also stand alone applications with Java. Is the text book method the way I should go, or is there some way I can get ahold of existing program source codes and modify them to learn? Which is better? I have no knowledge of any programming what so ever. Thank you for your replys.

Aaron Wyrick