Java for beginners turorial: what would you like to see?

Readers of the Javamex web site may or may not have seen the first pages of the site's Java for beginners tutorial, which covers a number of very basic Java topics such as variables, control structures (for loops, if/else), plus information on Java arrays.

Various topics are going to be added to the tutorial over the coming weeks. But how do you think it should be expanded? Are you just starting out in Java and having trouble with a particular topic? Or are you an experienced Java programmer, but remember having particular trouble with some aspect of learning Java with the tutorials that you used? Any feedback is welcome on this blog entry.

Java Certification Tips

A new page of Java Certification Tips gives a "cribsheet" of some of the "syntactic niggles" and other commonly overlooked features of Java that could trip up an otherwise moderately experienced programmer when taking the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) exam. Did you know, for example that:

• this is invalid Java syntax?
  float f = 2.5;
• goto is a Java keyword?
• this line does not assign the value 13 to the variable?:
  int i = 013;

See the page of tips for more information on these and other niggles.