Professional Java Programming is also good, but falls more in the realm of Core Java, Volume 2, as a second book, then something to get you started.

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Can anyone recomend a book or two. My class starts Java Programming in the next semester and I'm loking to get a jump start on it. I've done some programming in Visual Basic and HTML but I haven't ...