A friendly overview of Java basics |
A concise reference. Not good for learning, but a handy book to have when you are doing lots of programming. |
Detailed examples to accompany the previous reference book. |
A cookbook containing useful recipes for many common tasks, such as sending CGI, working with dates, etc. |
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The following tutorials are all available online at java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial However, it is often useful to have the printed version at hand when you are working through the tutorial and examples. |
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The basics of Java and applets including drawing and events |
The details of buliding fancy GUIs using Swing components |
All the other stuff about Java |
| Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) combine an editor, a compiler, an applet runner, and a debugger in one package. Some also have layout wizards that simplify GUI buliding. If you are writing a lot of applets, then you will want to have an IDE. The academic price for all of these is about $100. All are for Windows machines except Metrowerks which also has a Mac OS version. I use Metrowerks. | ||
Borland's JBuilder |
Metrowerk's Code Warrior |
WebGain's Visual Cafe Also available is a bundled set including Visual Cafe and Dreamweaver |
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