I'm looking for a book, a GOOD book, that details the Java language starting with the basics, or starting with only ASCII programs, and moving up into the Java GUI environment. Any suggestions?

In the U.S., Java was still a popular nickname for coffee in the late 1990s when the computer programming language was developed, said Georges Saab, the vice president of development for Java at ...

In brief: According to the Tiobe index of language popularity, the gap between Java and C# is so small that if the current trends remain unchanged, C# will overtake Java in about two months. Of ...