Learning java with no programming language experience, where to start?

[SlowHabit]

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mmbt,

When I went to school at Rice (class of '93), Scheme was used in a bunch of comp sci classes, apparently because it taught good conceptual programming practices.

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I thought Scheme was the best at teaching conceptual programming practices. Then I learned Java and thought Scheme was a piece of shiet. After a while, I changed my mind and decided that Scheme is the best.