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jamiros - 15 Apr 2008 15:35 GMT

Hello all,

I was just wondering if there's a good tutorial out there or book I
may read that will help me create applications in Java like I do in
Visual Basic. I downloaded Netbeans 6.1 and I did see that it's very
similar. I'm trying to go all opensource since Microsoft is too
expensive. Thanks!

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RedGrittyBrick - 15 Apr 2008 16:28 GMT

> Hello all,
>
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> similar. I'm trying to go all opensource since Microsoft is too
> expensive. Thanks!

I find Sun's tutorials are pretty good
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/TOC.html

I've not used JDesktop but this looks like a reasonable introduction.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jdic/

I recommend you learn Java basics first, then Swing and finally
JDesktop. I wouldn't start to write an application with JDesktop unless
I'd first written some console apps, then some Swing apps.

O'Reilly's "Learning Java" is a reasonable book. I'd also search this
newsgroup for other recommendations and browse a local bookshop.

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jamiros - 15 Apr 2008 21:47 GMT

On Apr 15, 9:28 am, RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBr...@SpamWeary.foo>
wrote:

> > Hello all,
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> RGB

Thanks RGB! I have gone over the basics of java and I understand how
that works. Also, object oriented programming is not hard for me. I
think it's just that I'm used to the MS IDE for apps and I might need
to get familiar with the NB IDE.

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