??== Java books for newcomers

[Aus, Hans Magnus]

Is "Beginning Java 2 SDK 1.4 Edition" by Ivor Horton, a good place to
start learning Java?

I'd appreciate book suggestions for an absolute newcomer to Java. I plan
to use Java both Open VMS 7.3-1 and Mac OS X.

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Hans Magnus Aus, Wuerzburg, a...@vim.uni-wuerzburg.de

[Robert A.M. van Lopik]

I have the book, and it looks alright, although overwhelmingly thick (1156
pages!). And you really should have some previous programming experience, I
think. And beware it treats Java 1.4 which, as far as I know, is not
available on VMS yet. Although that wouldn't matter for the great majority
of examples given.

hth,
rob van lopik

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[Peter LANGSTOEGER]

In article <1032709086.678413@spynews4>, "Robert A.M. van Lopik" <lo...@mail.telepac.pt> writes:
>I have the book, and it looks alright, although overwhelmingly thick (1156
>pages!). And you really should have some previous programming experience, I
>think. And beware it treats Java 1.4 which, as far as I know, is not
>available on VMS yet. Although that wouldn't matter for the great majority
>of examples given.

JAVA140 is already available for OpenVMS in beta.
See http://www.compaq.com/java/download/

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail pe...@langstoeger.at
A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm looking for (a) Network _and_ VMS Job(s)

[Bob Koehler]

In article <aus-0EA6F1.1...@wrzx08.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de>, "Aus, Hans Magnus" <a...@vim.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:
> Is "Beginning Java 2 SDK 1.4 Edition" by Ivor Horton, a good place to
> start learning Java?

I don't know aything about that one, but I simply used the
downloadable tutorial (IIRC from java.sun.com), and the downloadable
doc pages. (Java for VMS comes with the doc pages separatley
installable don't have to download them.)