need resources on Java/network/DB programming for non-dummies

[Timothy W Haven]

Hi,

Well, nobody else answered yet, so you get my second-hand info.
I don't know the language, but this info looks good:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/programming/learn/bookreview.html
This covers many publisher's books, so at least it is not Sun-only.

Everything you could want is probably somewhere in:
http://sun.systemnews.com/    
(The maillist that this replicates is what pointed me at the first URL.)

Timothy
thaven at world.std.com

On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:59:41PM -0500, Seth Gordon wrote:
> I have an idea for a board game, and I'd like to implement it as a
> Web-based game, because (a) creating and marketing a physical game is
> more trouble than it's worth to me, and (b) doing it on the Web would
> be a good exhibition and practice of my programming skills (such as
> they are).
> 
> The logical, not to mention career-enhancing, way of implementing this
> (correct me if I'm wrong) would be to have a server process on my own
> machine using a database to keep track of game state, and Java applets
> running in the players' browsers to display the board and communicate
> with the server about moves.  (Note that I don't particularly care
> what language the server process is written in.)
> 
> So if I want to implement this, I have to learn Java.  Can y'all
> recommend books on Java that (a) are written for people who already
> have some clue about programming; (b) will teach me to write applet
> code that can run on a variety of browsers; (c) are well-organized
> enough for me to learn what I need for *this project* without wading
> through hundreds of irrelevant pages?
> 
> --
> "The big dig might come in handy ... for a few project managers
>  whom I think would make great landfill."  --Elaine Ashton
> == seth gordon == sgordon at kenan.com == standard disclaimer ==
> == documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma ==
> 
> 
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