Writing Java Programs

This trail covers the fundamentals of programming in the Java language including discussions of several of the core classes shipped with the Java environment. Like the rest of the tutorial, the Java trail was designed so that you can skip around. As Java has many similarities with C and C++, if you are an experienced C or C++ programmer, you may want to skim the first few lessons to orient yourself to Java then dive into the later lessons as you are interested in them. Also, feel free to jump to other trails in the tutorial as you see fit. The lessons in other trails will provide links to any lessons in this trail if they contain pre-requisite information.
The book version of this tutorial breaks this trail in two:
Writing Java Programs, which contains the first three lessons listed below.

Using the Core Java Classes, which contains the remaining six lessons.