I feel I have to agree with argonaut. Even if OP is a student there must a be a project he wants to work on. Whatever it is, it can probably be done in java, a

I feel I have to agree with argonaut. Even if OP is a student there must a be a project he wants to work on. Whatever it is, it can probably be done in java, and it's worth doing it to learn. Trying to learn a language without actively using it to build something on which you can experiment more than just the examples of some book is really really important and you will learn way faster.