[Regulus]

I am really losing it over this Computer Sci. class where we learn Java. I get the feeling that because I wasn't at school for the first 3 months of school, I have missed a bunch of info on Java and I don't really know what on earth I'm doing. All I pretty much do is do the programs out of the book that are assigned and follow the instructions. We just got through making our first class from scratch (in partners) and I helped out about .1%. This stuff is so confusing, but I really want to master it. Does anyone here know of a place that is like "Java for beginners"? I might go down to Borders and get me a book on Java for dummies or something, but please, anyone help. Just a Java tutorial site is all I need.

[bla!!]

You could try out the tutorial put out by Sun (the developers of Java)

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

It's a bit annoying to read a tut online that's this long, but it's a place to start.

[ZoneFire]

in fact, you can get a lot of tutorials from the Internet.
but then, the java tutorial provided by Sun is not really well organised although it is very useful.
you can try to search around the website and look for that

[mohoo]

the book called thinking in java is good.And just as ZoneFire say,there are lots of tutorials from the Internet.Just search you will get a lot.

[Iron_Cross]

Most of the Sam's books are good too (like Sam's Teach yourself java 2 in 21 days). Or, any of the books by Ivor Horton, Andre LaMothe (those are game programming though), or Bruce Eckel are awesome.

[gsbtech]

If you miss the basics, everything will be a confusing attempt at memorization. Regardless of which source you read (and there are some good optiosn listed above), make sure you have a good handle on references, memory, and Object Oriented design. The rest is gravy.