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Add this and Java in a Nutshell to your collection an you can sit down and begin some serious programming without the added hours of API lookup.

It is not a tutorial

It is just a reference and what a bloody good one.

Swing and the AWT are hard to visualise as packages but with the handy pictures you can finally get your GUI to take advantage of polymorphism.

I bought this and Java in a nutshell when beginning to learn java, they didn't help that much in the early days but 2 years later they are all I need.