Java Programming

I was just wondering, where do I actually start programming java? I have a book but I am too lazy to read it,do you have any online resources or good online resources, may knowledge about java is not that quite huge, right now I know set and get, return and other stuff that is java related , but I don't have idea about UIS yet since I am studying the basics any idea . or exercises , good/great online resource that lead me straight to the topic, since in the book, there are alot of useless stuff.

btw what's better? C# or java?

Thanks in Advance

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