Can anyone recomend a book or two. My class starts Java Programming in the next semester and I'm loking to get a jump start on it. I've done some programming in Visual Basic and HTML but I haven't ...

I have a friend who was a Java programmer about 5 years back. He has programmed in a few languages (C, C++, VB, java), so he is comfortable with code. For the last 5 years, he has been supporting a ...