What are the best free books, tutorials, websites for Java?

Question

What are the best free of charge books, tutorials, websites for Java?

Answer 1

Sun itself probably has the most comprehensive list of tutorials on Java.

Answer 2

You can check out Bruce Eckel's books that are freely available online. He has older editions of Thinking in Java, Thinking in Enterprise Java and various books about Object Oriented Design, C++, and other interesting stuff.

Answer 3

A shout out for: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist which is a beginner book that teaches programming using Java. Probably not what you're looking for, but it's a great book and it's free.

Answer 4

I thnk IBM produces some of the best material out there:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/

Answer 5

Mosey on over to the Java Ranch. Many forums aimed at Java certification, other Java topics, and programming in general.

Answer 6

jguru.com -- articles, tutorials, links, forums. nice place to hang out. precursor to javaranch . Javaranch is much bigger now but jguru still gets a good number of people. check it out.

Answer 7

javabat.com is a great site for practising and learning Java and programming concepts.

Answer 8

Personally I still use the online API's a lot.
Java API's
Basic probably but very comprehensive and useful

Answer 9

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