Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days - Programmer Books

This book is intended for people with at least some basic programming background, which includes people with years of programming experience or people with only a small amount of experience. If you understand what variables, loops, and functions are, you'll be just fine for this book. The sorts of people who might want to read this book include you, if You're a real whiz at HTML, understand CGI programming (in Perl, AppleScript, Visual Basic, or some other popular CGI language) pretty well, and want to move on to the next level in Web page design. You had some Basic or Pascal in school and you have a basic grasp of what programming is, but you've heard Java is easy to learn, really powerful, and very cool. You've programmed C and C for many years, you've heard this Java thing is becoming really popular and you're wondering what all the fuss is all about.