What are the best books for learning OOC, Java and SQL? How long does it take to become proficient in those areas?

[Arkitech]

I need to learn as much as I can about OOC, Java and SQL. My new job requires that I understand those areas of IT. I'm enrolled in a few classes but I want a few books to do some additional studying. Any suggestions on really good books for teaching beginners? Also how long does it take to become somewhat proficient in those technologies?

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[FoBoT]

best thing is to setup a box and figure out a way to produce some data and start feeding it in

nothing like doing it to learn

 

[Reel]

I bet those MIT open courses have material that can help you. I learned SQL real fast from one of the web tutorials. It is easy to learn the basics of and you can pick up the more advanced things by playing with it.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Arkitech
I need to learn as much as I can about OOC, Java and SQL. My new job requires that I understand those areas of IT. I'm enrolled in a few classes but I want a few books to do some additional studying. Any suggestions on really good books for teaching beginners? Also how long does it take to become somewhat proficient in those technologies?

SQL is easy, you can pick that up by reading a book. OOP will take you a while, it's a whole new paradigm of design. You have to think about the problems on hand in a certain way, and getting there takes time. Once you can think OOP, java comes naturally.

 

[Arkitech]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: Arkitech
I need to learn as much as I can about OOC, Java and SQL. My new job requires that I understand those areas of IT. I'm enrolled in a few classes but I want a few books to do some additional studying. Any suggestions on really good books for teaching beginners? Also how long does it take to become somewhat proficient in those technologies?

SQL is easy, you can pick that up by reading a book. OOP will take you a while, it's a whole new paradigm of design. You have to think about the problems on hand in a certain way, and getting there takes time. Once you can think OOP, java comes naturally.

OOP does'nt seem to difficult so far, but then again I'm just getting started. I'm learning the donut diagrams and trying to understand the terms.. (class definitions, objects, states, etc..)

 

[Arkitech]

any of you guys certified in those areas?

 

[Reel]

Are there certifications for java? There are plenty of us with formal education in computer science and software engineering type degrees that had OOP and java beaten into us.

 

[Leper Messiah]

I learned OOP back in the day with VB...meh. Once you know one OOP, you just have to learn the syntax of another language for it to work right.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Reel
Are there certifications for java? There are plenty of us with formal education in computer science and software engineering type degrees that had OOP and java beaten into us.

Sun does have a java cert.