Re: JAVA education

[Gary Feinstein <gfeinste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,
        I too picked up that book but only after I read "Hooked on Java" by Van
Hoff, Shaio and Starbuck. I thought the latter wuz a good place to start
being that it was a little more basic and eased its way in to the
concepts.  It's definitely not as in depth as the Teach Yourself book,
but I did get a good deal of info out of it.  As far as the Teach
Yourself goes, I read quite a bit of it too.  I wasn't all that
impressed though.  I've done some programming in C but I'm finding Java
a bit trickier to grasp.  Although, now that we have this mailing list,
maybe I can get some of my questions answered a bit quicker and more
precisely.  BTW, great idea in case nobody's given you a pat on the
back!

Gary Feinstein
AS/400 System Administrator
Planet Hollywood International Inc.

david.gibbs@silvon.com wrote:
> 
> Folks:
> 
> What approaches are people taking to LEARN java?
> 
> It's not exactly a easy switch for RPG/COBOL programmers to switch to
> a C++ paradigm.
> 
> Personally: I dropped $50 and picked up "Teach Yourself JAVA in 21
> days, Professional Reference Edition".  It's not too bad so far,
> although there are 7 extra days in the book (BONUS).  It comes with a
> CD with the Sun JDK for Windows & Mac and a collection of demo IDE's.
> 
> david
> --
> 
> David Gibbs
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