These will work with early versions of Java (1.02 on) although later versions may give deprecated api errors but you should still be able to compile and run them. These do not run on the Internet but are standalone applications that can do all the things applets cannot such as write to the local drive.

Tutorial #1 - Getting started
Tutorial #2 - Creating frames
Tutorial #3 - Buttons
Tutorial #4 - Menus
Tutorial #5 - Save/Load dialogs
Tutorial #6 - Final listing