Can you recommend a good Java book?

[SKTodd]

I will be attending a 5 day Java course in June and want to become familiar with Java before I attend. Can anyone recommend a good Java instruction manual for someone who is only familiar with HTML, JavaScript and VBScript? Thanks.

 

[afontana]

I've found
"Core Jave 1.2" - Volume I-Fundamentals
by Cay S.Horstmann, Gary Cornell
Prentice Hall, Inc. A Pearson Education Company

a very interesting and useful guide
to learning java.

By.

 

[harmmeijer]

You can download the sun java tutorials (they were a lot of help to mee).
I started java with .netbeans which is a good IDE and I passed the scjp with the tutorials and with trying out some stuff with .netbeans:

see this thread for all links to find the info:

thread269-519610

 

[JVZ]

Also another good book, which is also free to download is Thinking in JAVA...it can be found at

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/.

 

[SKTodd]

Excellent help! Thanks.