Best books for *real* newbies?

Hi,
I need a good tutorial that assumes absolutely nothing about Java or much programming knowledge aside from knowing that boolean means either or, and that string is text. Is there such a thing? I've been to javaranch.com and it's close and the cup stories are cute but it's still not what I need.
thanks
Laura
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I need a good tutorial that assumes absolutely nothing
about Java or much programming knowledge aside from
knowing that boolean means either or, and that string
is text. I recommend Sams Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 hours. Its a great place to start if you know nothing about programming. It first explains a little history of programming and what actually takes place behind the scenes, then it explains all the basics of programming that often get glazed over in language specific books. It covers a bunch of different languages and does most its examples in QBasic. Scoff if you want but QBasic is a good language for learning the fundementals and is already installed on all windows PC's, although it has very little use today. But the book eventually gets into C/C++ and Java. I beleive its the best place to start beacause even though most language specific books say you don't need any prior programming knowledge, you really do. Most Java books will show you how to use common loops and program control statements in Java, but they won't really explain to you how and why you would use them. And if you don't understand basic program flow the rest of the example in the Java book will be pretty useless to you.

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