app727 said:
I've just started using java, and I'm really not that good. I'm okay at
VB, but I wanted to try something new. Any suggestions for tutorials,
books or resources would really be helpful.
I have documented my first step of this process at
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http://ide.profectus.com.au>. At the moment I would strongly
recommend NetBeans. In addition to including everything you need "in
the box" it has a superior GUI builder.
After this step and assuming that are coming from VB "classic" (rather
than .NET) you will need to reorient your thinking to dealing with
objects including inheritance. Some people advise doing this by
reading a language independent text book. I just started coding in
Java so I can't tell you if that might be a better approach.
Finally you have to get used to the fact that, if you want to program
something, it has probably already been done and there is a library
that you should use. You can use Google to locate the code and
NetBeans to write the import statement.