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It's very helpful, thanks :) Since I don't have a CS course at my disposal anytime soon, do you know of any books or online courses that could cover the basics?

• dkuntz2 15y ago
  I would provide you with book suggestions, but as I said, most of what I've learned is due to lectures and examples. If you've got to have a book, I've heard that O'Reilly's Head First Design Patterns is pretty good for the patterns themselves (heard the same for most of the Head First series). That book uses Java. As for when I come across a problem, I've found that if you search for your problem on Google you'll generally get a good result. You could also check out the Stack Exchange networks, specifically Stack Overflow, try under the Java tag over there. While I've never really looked, you might be able to find a nice Open Course Ware class on learning Java, but again, I don't know if they exist or not. The documentation for Java is also really nice and fairly easy to understand.