What Java Book?

[Nazbit]

Hi all,

Well I started at university in september, having done no previous programming and I have studied quite a bit of java. However out of all the topics I am studying on my computer science degree, this is the part I find most challenging.

I only have a week of programming lectures left (although I do still have 2 more assigments to go) but after that I am done for the year so I thought why not get a book to read over the summer and try and get up to speed and maybe a little bit ahead aswell.

Can anyone reccomend a good book for me in my situation given my current skill level?

Thanks.

 

[Nazbit]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will have a look at them all.

I did have a reading list yes and I bought a good deal of the books on it, the problem is none of them are actually based on java. They are all about software engineering in general, the software development process, software lifecycle, all that sort of stuff.