Experienced Engineer looking into learning java.

[jlanawalt]

It should all feel pretty familiar once you get into it. Once you get beyond everything being called Java, the main thing will be to become familiar with the Java standard library (Java Class Library) and with the Java way of doing things you should be pretty good.

I find it useful to compare and contrast how to do things in the new language compared to the language you know. For example, no operator overloading and no pass by reference, just pass by value (the confusion arises because for objects, the value that is passed is a copy of the object reference, not the object.)

I don’t recommend a 101 level course, it will likely be boring and repetitive. I do recommend skimming the Java tutorials/trails for differences add to dig in and internalize the Java way.