RE: Books

[Don Strickland <dstrickland@xxxxxxx>]

Arlene, 

Find a University near you which teaches Java.  Then look for an instructor
who lives and dreams tech.  That is the class to attend.  

Stay away from any Community College Java classes, and avoid (at first) Java
classes where the focus is on GUI and applets.  You want hard-core Java
application-level knowledge (ie.  arrays, threads & more threads, servlets,
beans, JDBC, etc.).  

Later, when you begin to fill in the GUI fluff, learn HTML and XML at the
same time.  Swing is optional, not necessary.

I took a class taught by a "mushroom tech" (back room, doesn't deal with
people) from Intel.  The class was very difficult, required alot of
after-class research, but jump started me into Java very quickly.  

I use the midrange book "e-RPG, Building AS/400 Web Applications with RPG"
to understand the AS400 connection to the Web, and IBM's "Java for RPG
Programmers" to translate pure Java to the AS400.  This works very well for
me.   The IBM RedBook "Building AS400 Applications with Java" is a waste of
$50.  It is inaccurate, full of bad code, and flat doesn't work.

That's my 2 cents worth.

Good luck.


-----Original Message-----
From: Arlene M Soderlund [mailto:Arlene_M_Soderlund/NFCNA.COM@nfcna.com]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 9:38 AM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Books






Besides using the IBM manuals for Sleep therapy, what books would everyone
Recommend for a very experieced RPG'er to Learn JAVA, I have or will be
ordering
the News/400 & Midrange computing Books.  So my question is what  non-AS/400
books are useful????

Thanks
Arlene





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