[ale] good website for novice learning Java ?

[JK]

Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:

> It's kind of funny that you mention both Bruce Eckel's Java book and 
> Python,
> since he seems to have hopped off of the java wagon and onto the Python
> one.  Last I heard, he's writing a _Thinking_in_Python_ book.

He's had draft chapters up on his web site for a couple of years
now, but I think plans for a dead-trees version have been
either dropped or indefinitely postponed.  I'm not overwhelmingly
impressed with the available chapters:

<http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython>

-- JK