Well, I went to a college and took this course called "data structures". However the language that we will be programin in is java, which I never used before. The book that we are using is called ''Data structures and algorithms in Java", I went to amazon.com and looked at reviews: 3 out of 4 reviews are saying that it''s a bad book, and the one rview that doesn''t say that it''s a bad book starts with a topic ''If you like mathematics" Well, I bought the book anyway, since we use it in class. The book is exactly what reviews said It doesn''t have much examples, and the author has a bad habit of puuting in example a lot of stuff that he never declears. And the examples aren''t good to begin with. Because of all of this I have a rather hard time understanding what the things are used for etc. Anyway, on to my point If anyone could tell me what would be a good book for a begginer in java( the one that explains things good and has a lot of good, easy to understand examples). Or if anyone could provide a link to a good java tutorial. Also if anyone could give me a link to a free java compiler, that would be awesome. Thanks in advance. PS: And yes, I did a search on google, and looked at about 10 sites. But they all tend to make a jump from "hello world" to stuff that I don''t understand