It won't be possible for me to cover everything here, and there are two very good resources available on the web that I want to have us able to refer to. Sort of the textbooks for this tutorial.
First is Sun's Java Tutorial. This is exhaustive, and exhausting. It covers most everything, I guess, but it doesn't tell much of a story, which I hope I will be able to do here. There is the pervasive stench of marketing, which I detest. Nevertheless, it is a fundamental source to look to. I especially think the really high level perspective it offers is good, like here. I won't suggest going through this tutorial, however, because I personally don't like it. There is something cloying and cutesy about Sun's presentation that makes me unable to stomach their tutorial straight through, though I acknowledge that it is a great resource in small bursts.
For a tutorial that you can actually follow without gagging, I like David J. Eck's Introduction to Programming Using Java, fifth edition. It is free to download, so the price is right. More than that, though, I found it very easy to read, free from Sun hype, and its examples are very illuminating.
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