Trying to learn the basics :)

[GTdrew]

Taking some time off school and working a bunch to make some money and have some fun. Basically burnt out on school

While im taking some time off I want to learn (or at least get the basics down) of a couple programming languges. I've taken a computer science class before but it was all concept based and used "psuedo" code as they called it. Heard that Java is easier than C++ to learn when it comes to object oriented programming.

Christmas is coming up so I was going to ask for a couple books. Heard good thing about the Deitel & Deitel, and Oreilleys books. "Java in a nutshell" by Oreilly and Core Java by someone else. Also want a good book on web developement tools. Any ideas?

Any tips for how to go about doing this. Gonna set up a schedule to spend x amount of time studying each day. Any really good resouces online. Already checked out java.sun.com and it looks really cool.

Anyways thanks for the help sorry for rambling

Drew

 

[minendo]

ive got an oreilly book on learning the Unix operating system. great book and id use Oreilly again if i ever look into comp books again

 

[splice]

I would have to say the best Java book I have is "just JAVA 2" by Peter van der Linden. It's a book from Sun published by Prentice Hall. It has just about everything you need to know.

 

[thornc]

Get either Thinking in C++ for C++ or
Thinking in Java for Java... they are both from Bruce Eckel

They are both free, and I like the author alot.

edit: Added the author name!

 

[andri]

I learned Java from Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java. Really great book.

And O'Reilly has always been known of publishing very good books.