Ask HN: I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to learn Java.

10 points·andymoe··8 comments

Any recommendations on books or resources to get up to speed with Java quickly. I'm a pretty experienced programmer looking to port some iOS applications to Android and get to know Java so I know when to dip into the Java platform from Clojure.

Also, where can the java community be found online? Thanks in advance.

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Any recommendations on books or resources to get up to speed with Java quickly

My knowledge of Java books is probably pretty out of date, but I got some mileage out of the Deitel & Deitel book Java: How To Program.

Also, where can the java community be found online?

http://www.jroller.com

http://www.theserverside.com

http://saloon.javaranch.com

all come to mind...

Great - thanks so much!

Reg. community, the list cannot be complete without the SO tag - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java

Cool. What about java related IRC channels?

On Freenode:

##java

#spring

#eclipse

#jboss

#hibernate

#lucene

are ones I sometimes lurk in, that are fairly active. The Triangle (NC) Java User's Group also have a channel, but it's not terribly active most of the time.

#trijug (again, on Freenode)

Also, if you're not already in #startups, it's a channel full of HN users... might be of interest to ya.

Sweet! Thanks for the great list.

I would like to put in a plug for EFNet #java - idle there long enough and you may learn some things.

Disclaimer: I am an op there.

The official Java tutorial is also worth taking a look at. It's free, updated and more concise compared to most books.

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