M. Bunyard

I started learning Java from Walter Savitch's, "Java - An introduction to Computer Science and Programming", which takes a detailed approach to the fundamentals of the language and programming logic. The book has good examples that are often written one way and then rewritten to show a more efficient/improved approach. Each chapter has good projects for the reader to write and understand before moving on.

As Paras Jain mentioned, Bruce Eckel's, "Thinking In Java", is a good book, but as others it assumes some previous knowledge. It reviews the basics, but it not nearly as detailed as the Savitch book. It is a great book to get an understanding before researching, plus the previous (3rd edition) is free in PDF format, so taking a look can't hurt.

You could use a return statement in the catch block, which should stop execution of the finally block.

import java.util.*; public class List{ public static void main (String [] args){ List mylist = new List(); Number one = new Number(1); Number two = new Number(2); Number three = new Number(3); Number four = new Number(4); Number five = new Number(5); } }

From the imported java.util.* package, it appears that you are trying to instantiate a java.util.List object. A java.util.List object cannot be instantiated due to the fact that it is an interface, but you can do the following if the Collections List is what your after:

public class List{ public static void main (String [] args){ java.util.List mylist = new ArrayList(); Number one = new Number(1); Number two = new Number(2); Number three = new Number(3); Number four = new Number(4); Number five = new Number(5); mylist.add(one); mylist.add(two); mylist.add(three); mylist.add(four); mylist.add(five); } }

The "java.util" is pre-pended when defining the mylist variable to remove the ambiguity in which List class (or interface) to use (either predefined java.util.List interface or your List class).