Java for beginners

[ziad alsayed]

Dear all

looking to learn Java, dont know anything about yet.

please can you help with some resourses, books, DVD series, links, online course.....


thanks in advance.

 

[Kyle123]

SO tends to be a good place to google when looking for resources to learn languages Learning Java - Stack Overflow (even though the questions get closed down, since they're not really within the rules of the site - they tend to get a lot people answering).

Out of curiosity, why Java?

 

[ziad alsayed]

dear Kyle

thanks for your reply. there is no specific reason, it is not even in my scope of work, just want to learn and new code language. they advise me to try java.

on the other hand microsoft is not giving sood support to VBA (Unless i am wrong), do you suggest any other language.

 

[Kyle123]

It depends on why you are wanting to learn it, most programming languages are a pretty big departure from VBA (which is really a stripped down VB6), but I wouldn't have chosen java as a first language to learn - something like python would probably be much easier. For building desktop apps that run on windows I'd probably go for one of the MS languages, VB.NET/C# (don't be fooled by the name Visual Basic.Net is nothing like vba/vb6 - the C# community is bigger than the VB as well so there are loads more training/help resources online for it than VB), if you want to make web apps then learning PHP is probably a better start - it's not as object orientated as Java so might be less of a learning curve and it's a pretty easy language to pick up - it'll also introduce you to a non statically typed language which might be useful if you fancy javascript (again don't be fooled by the name - nothing like java) which is rapidly becoming the "de-facto" language of the web.

If it's just learning because you fancy it, I'd probably go with python, it's easy, powerful and also lets you create web applications pretty easily if you fancy it (though technically any of the listed languages would also). If you want to make windows apps, then I'd probably go C# (highly subjective, but it's like Java "done right" )

 

[mk1234]

you can refer complete reference or join some forum websites to discuss the problems while starting java.