Campbell Ritchie wrote:If you are going to get an intro book what about Horstmann't Core Java for the Impatient
I highly recommend Cay Horstman's books as well. He is the only Java author that I give high recommendations for. All the others are amateurs by comparison. (Though, I haven't had a chance to read the Deitel & Deitel book yet. I liked their C++ book a lot and suspect they will have done a similarly good job with Java.)