What is a good website or book for beginners to learn Java?

[froggyboy604]

Can anyone recommend me any websites, books, videos, etc for learning Java?

Previous programming Experience: Introductory Visual Basic 2005

[SetoTK]

Why you would want to learn Java is beyond me.

But i would say you couldn't go wrong with O'Reilly books there pretty reliable in being upto date.

Java as far as i know is not a very well documented language and is not something i have had any inclination to learn.

[froggyboy604]

Thanks, I check out those books.

The school put me in the class. I don't like how it is case sensative and require users to use so many symbols like {} {} () , etc.

[SetoTK]

Yea thats for linux based systems i beleive as they are very particular about that.

it's a hard language to learn, a very under used language (to my knowledge) as well as being very heavy toboot

[froggyboy604]

It is kind of ridiculous how much code you have to write just print out a single line of text that says "Hello World" plus the semi colons and curly braces can get annoying.

class myfirstjavaprog
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}

[SetoTK]

Aye, why i like web languages,

for php for example

<?php
echo "Hello Planet";
?>

or the long way

<?php
$hw = "Hello Planet";
echo $hw;
?>

of course there are a couple other much longer ways but for the purpose of this demonstration they do not apply.