Can anyone recomend a book or two. My class starts Java Programming in the next semester and I'm loking to get a jump start on it. I've done some programming in Visual Basic and HTML but I haven't ...

I've been learning Java for a semester and a bit and I've been working with BlueJ which has a handy textbook but it's scarcely a definitive reference - it's quite basic. I recently bought Sam's Teach ...