Wanna learn Java

[the.dark.lord]

I want to learn Java straight from basic ... can you people gimme the link of the good site?
Thanks in advance.
Peace:)

[shining]

You could read Thinking in Java:
http://www.mindviewinc.com/downloads/TIJ-3rd-edition4.0.zip

And then sun tutorials:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

Have you searched the forum? This has probably already been asked.
And I think the Programming Talk forum is more appropriate:
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=30&f=39

[bonzini]

OK, so I'm old, which probably helps explain why I'm old-fashioned.

I learned Java from O'Reilly's Java in a Nutshell for Java 1.0 way back. I have the 1.5 sitting on my desktop. Soon I'll have to get the 1.6 monster.

Of course now there are 200 or so O'Reilly books on Java, which makes it tough to choose.

Anyway. If you can use an IDE, get NetBeans and see if James Gosling's book is still current. If not, find an O'Reilly book on learning Java. The online stuff is OK but it always covers a bunch of generations and it isn't always well-updated.

But get the O'Reilly Nutshell book. Once you start to go it's great to have the physical thing at hand, cuz your screen will be jam-packed with NetBeans.

And pick a good project. Stay away from all the web-based stuff initially, there are just way too many ways to skin the proverbial feline. Write something that reads and writes files. Make a paint program in Java. Stay away from the n-tier stuff until you understand the language. And maybe stay away from it anyway - as much as I love Java, if you want to do a web app your best bet is probably Ruby on Rails.

[kuja]

The O'Reilly Head First books are good, up-to-date with Java 5 too.

[MedivhX]

I have: Thinking like a scientist in Java.