Good evening guys,

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

Code:
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...

  1. Input and Output
  2. Variables: Processing Data Using Calculations
  3. 'if' statements
  4. Loops
  5. Using objects
  6. Writing methods
  7. Writing classes
  8. 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