Beginning Game Development - Suggestions?

[JDCAce]

Hello. I'd like to get into Java game development, but I can't find any good tutorials online. Are there any decent books I could buy? Do you have any recommendations? Are you a game developer? How did you start out?

[xcallmejudasx]

I'm taking a game development concentration within my major but I havn't taken any of the courses yet so the best I can give you is what we take

Required Courses:
CS-320 Computer Graphics
CS-420 Virtual Reality
CS-385 Introduction to Game Design
CS-481 Artificial Intelligence

Types of intelligence, knowledge representation, cognitive models. Goalbased
systems, heuristic search and games, learning systems. Language
understanding, robotics, theorem proving and deductive systems

CS-485 Advanced Game Programming

This course contains essentials of developing a meaningful game play
and its implementation. The contents include game-play design and its
implementation using GUI elements, sound, terrains and rendering the
end game.