New to this Java thing

[Supremax]

I would say very new! Here is where I currently stand on my knowledge. Dreamweaver design to an intermediate level. I have no idea if it's Javascript or JAVA that suits my needs. But stop me if I'm wrong. Javascript doesn't create files server side? Or to be more precise, database? And if it does, can you change the contents of those database with Javascript?

Yes, already read that Javascript isn't JAVA. But I have many questions and from what I could tell thus far, looks like I have to get more familiar with JAVA. Last time I touched anything that had to do with programming language, it was QBASIC and GWBASIC. So you can imagine I been out of touch.

Another question I have, where would one get to learn more about JAVA without breaking their wallet? I saw courses on JAVA website for hundreds of dollars and afraid can't afford that, at the time being.

Any guidance would greatly be appreciated, thanks.

[GoGoCarl]

Just google java and you can learn for free. sun.java.com (i think that's right) has many resources. books are probably a cheap alternative if google comes up empty, and many have practice CDs and such.

for your purposes, java is server-side, javascript is client-side. there are means to run javascript server-side but yes, you want java.

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Carl Scott
Software Developer, Solertium Corporation

[jetbrains]

Another question I have, where would one get to learn more about JAVA without breaking their wallet?
'Thinking in Java' is a very good book for Java newbies. You can download it from its site directly by free.
Hope it helps

[Pream]

correction: the site is java.sun.com tells you everything u might wanna know about java