1) Buy a good book.. Corejava series (horstman/cornell) imho is great. 2) Go through the book as if you want to teach someone else. 3) Find something you enjoy..ie (Graphical Apps...applets....Web programming..multithreading) 4) for web programming I founf Marty Hall Book a good starter. www.coreservlets.com <http://www.coreservlets.com> 4) Experiment with it...ie get some service provider which offers jsp/servlet programming and try stuff. 5) Fill a need....(local soccer leagues application) 6) Let everybody know about it. -----Original Message----- From: Peter Boivin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gaining a Position I am trying to break into the field of programming as a Java developer. I would like to ask the people who are employed as Java Programmers how they got their break into the world of programming and, more specifically, java. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
