need resources on Java/network/DB programming for non-dummies

[imagelab at juno.com (Karl M Hergenrother)]

I just finished a course in Java at U Mass Lowell, and we used 'Core Java
Volume I Fundamentals' by Horstman and Cornell.  The book was $32.24 at
CompUSA.  The book is thorough and the code comes on a CD.  The CD also
has JDK1.2 and some tools.  I think you can learn from this book,
although I found that the lecture notes were also needed.  The notes and
tutorials and references at the Sun site are extensive and daunting.  As
you might expect, there is NOTHING you can't find there.  I also find
O'Reilly's 'Java in a Nutshell' invaluable as a reference, particularly
in finding my way through the package libraries.  

I hope this helps.

Karl

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 19:24:55 -0500 Timothy W Haven <thaven at world.std.com>
writes:
> Hi,
> 
> Well, nobody else answered yet, so you get my second-hand info.
> I don't know the language, but this info looks good:
>
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/programmi
ng/learn/bookreview.html
> This covers many publisher's books, so at least it is not Sun-only.
> 
> Everything you could want is probably somewhere in:
> http://sun.systemnews.com/    
> (The maillist that this replicates is what pointed me at the first 
> URL.)
> 
> Timothy
> thaven at world.std.com
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote:
> > I have an idea for a board game, and I'd like to implement it as a
> > Web-based game, because (a) creating and marketing a physical game 
> is
> > more trouble than it's worth to me, and (b) doing it on the Web 
> would
> > be a good exhibition and practice of my programming skills (such 
> as
> > they are).
> > 
> > The logical, not to mention career-enhancing, way of implementing 
> this
> > (correct me if I'm wrong) would be to have a server process on my 
> own
> > machine using a database to keep track of game state, and Java 
> applets
> > running in the players' browsers to display the board and 
> communicate
> > with the server about moves.  (Note that I don't particularly care
> > what language the server process is written in.)
> > 
> > So if I want to implement this, I have to learn Java.  Can y'all
> > recommend books on Java that (a) are written for people who 
> already
> > have some clue about programming; (b) will teach me to write 
> applet
> > code that can run on a variety of browsers; (c) are well-organized
> > enough for me to learn what I need for *this project* without 
> wading
> > through hundreds of irrelevant pages?
> > 
> > --
> > "The big dig might come in handy ... for a few project managers
> >  whom I think would make great landfill."  --Elaine Ashton
> > == seth gordon == sgordon at kenan.com == standard disclaimer ==
> > == documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma ==
> > 
> > 
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