Re: Learning java - any advice please?

Pete,

You sound just like me.   You might take a look at a couple of books 
published by 29th Street Press - the iSeries Network folks.  One 
is "iSeries & AS/400 VisualAge for Jave" by Jerry Ropelato and the 
other is "Java and the AS/400" by Daniel Darnell.  If you get the 
iSeries magazine you will get a nice discount on the books.

I have taken a basic beginning java class - three hours one night a 
week for two months - and nothing registered.  I have read one paper 
after another on java.  It is like speaking English all your life and 
all of a sudden needing to speak Russian.  I am not developing 
applications yet, but the books were a big help.  Jerry's book actually 
gives you a step by step - don't leave anything out - short course in 
developing an actual working AS/400 application in java.  Daniel's book 
explains a lot of stuff that the non-RPGer's take for granted.  

DT