dennismonsewicz Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Can anyone recommend a good JAVA book for someone who doesn't know a whole lot about JAVA? I am a PHP/MySQL programmer but may have to learn some JAVA for an upcoming project. Any ideas? Tks! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Go to sun.com. They have plenty of good tutorials and an awesome forum community if you need any help. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismonsewicz Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 sweet thanks! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revraz Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,201364.0.html Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,201364.0.html Java, not Javascript Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Can anyone recommend a good JAVA book for someone who doesn't know a whole lot about JAVA? I am a PHP/MySQL programmer but may have to learn some JAVA for an upcoming project. Any ideas? Tks! Is there something specific you should be learning? There's a lot to learn and many components in the Java web environment. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismonsewicz Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 well we are going to be using the CMS Liferay and it is built on the JAVA language. Although there are applets you can build for it such as PHP (which do not work with the most updated version of this CMS) and python... so i would have to be learning JAVA for not heavy development but for a "just in case" situation... I also need to learn python. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 It's Java, not JAVA. Read tutorials. A lot of tutorials. I can't say this with much meaning since I've never used Java for anything major, but I personally think Java is a very easy language to pick up if you have decent general-programming skills (logic mainly). The Java documentation is awesome too. So uhhh.... Just wondering, what have you tried to learn Java? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-746996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismonsewicz Posted January 26, 2009 Author Share Posted January 26, 2009 is your question why have you tried to learn Java? or Where have you tried to learn Java? Why: I have no choice, being forced to by Place of business... could care less about this language Where: A company owned book, I took a class in High school and google Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-747003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Hrmmm, I know you want a book to read, but you could probably learn Java just off of tutorials or something. If it's been a long time since you've done anything programmy though, maybe a book would be a good idea then.... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-747009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 but I personally think Java is a very easy language to pick up if you have decent general-programming skills (logic mainly). Java is relatively easy to pick up if you compare it to something like C. Compared to PHP it's going to be difficult. You're probably going to have to learn most of the J2EE if you're working with a CMS web application. If the only thing you know is PHP, which is an extremely easy language to pick up, then you're going to want to study more so on classes and objects. Learn and study the Liferay API. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-747016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerRobot Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 My department recommends a book called Java By Dissection. Haven't got all that far with it yet though, so i can't personally vouch for it. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-747551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismonsewicz Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 thanks Ginger! I ordered that book this morning... found it for a penny on Amazon.com! I read through some of the book and it breaks it down pretty well. thanks again Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/142523-good-java-book-for-a-complete-newb/#findComment-747569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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