Originally Posted by Liam and how the hell would writing Java be easier? It's a much more advanced language and it's usage is completely different to JS.

This is very true it is more advanced, but it is a great language to learn when you are starting out programming as it gives you a very good basis on how programming works.

The reason I said this was because most javascript books will talk about XHTML/CSS as well, where as Java would be completely separate, and therefore wouldn't be as daunting as trying to apply a new language immediatly into the old one(which are completely different).

I speak from experience, this worked for me(not saying it will work for everyone), once I had learnt Java, Javascript was a doddle, I just had to learn how to apply it to xhtml/css.