I need a good Java tutorial, something that starts with the basics.

Question

I need a tutorial to teach myself Java programming. I have good experience in a couple programming languages, but absolutely no experience with Java. Therefore, I need the tutorial to start with the basics of Java programming, but it doesn't have to cover the basics of general programming logic.

If the tutorial also doubles as a reference for deeper and less known stuff, that's even better, but the important part is that it starts from the bottom.

(I'm embarrassed. I was going to mark this as community wiki but forgot to mark before posting. Could a moderator fix it, please?)

Answer 1

Java Tutorials
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

This explains the classpath
http://kevinboone.net/classpath.html

Oracle has a lot of Java related stuff including API docs.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/newtojava/overview/gettingstarted-jsp-138588.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index.html

Answer 2

I think this tutorial is good to start with :

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/TOC.html