Originally Posted by bendsley

This should probably be moved to the Tilted Programming area.

Have you ever learned a programming language? If not, then Java isn't something you will want to try first. A high level, Object Oriented Programming (OOP) language like Java isn't easy to learn unless you dedicate a whole lot of time to it. You might try some scripting languages out first, like JavaScript or PHP to get down programming logic, and then maybe something like C++. Java structure is a lot like C++, so knowing it first may help.