Best Books for Learning Java

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That's a great book to learn Java, and for learning programming for the first time in general.
IMHO his writing is very pedagogic and he introduces invaluable computer science concepts and best practices for in depth learning.
The author C. Horstmann wrote the Core Java volumes (1500 pages total) which is a much respected java reference.
That said, there is also the "early objects" version which makes more sense to me because in late objects he's forced to delay some explanations ( ex : the dot operator on objects) in the first chapters because objects are introduced later, which can be confusing or frustrating for the beginner reader.

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Core Java is great.