How to I start?

[metachief]

I finally got tired of Turing and decided to switch to java. Since I am not taking a couse in school to get me started, I can only self teach it to my-self. It would be nice if someone could get me started. As I can see, the syntax is completely different from turing and so it confuses me a lot. Any basic lessons would be nice (Expain how you started learing it). Please...
Thanks in advance!

[wtd]

http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=17280

[btiffin]

After running through wtd's excellent adventure, make sure to check out
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html as well.

Cheers

[metachief]

Thank you guys very much.

[Waylon777]

Hello. I just started learning java on my own recently and I hvae a problem that I cannot compile a program. When I type the directory of my textpad files and type the file name, the promt says it cannot find the file. Why? If you have time, please tell me how to fix that. Thank you.

[Pockets]

Do your java files have the proper filetype suffixes? All your code files should be .java files. Also, make sure your CLASSPATH is set to the proper path (the directory in which your program is stored). The Sun corporation has one of the most comprehensive, beautiful document sites I've ever seen, and you should run through the common issues here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/getStarted/problems/index.html

You may also want to try an IDE like DrJava that compiles automatically. The console tool is also one of the best learning tools I've ever seen, so make full use of that.

[Waylon777]

Thank you very much! I finally got the hang of it.

[rto]

http://www.beens.org/ics3m/Using_Console_Class_Assignments.htm is a very good website. It has some very easy, basic assignments that you can try to use. Sorry that it came a little bit late thow lol. Please note that this website uses READY to program so whenever you see c.readLine or c.println, just replace the 'c' with System.out