Could you please recommend some good books that show how to exploit the strong features of Java, rather than bombard me with a bunch of syntactic rules and libraries (that's what "The ANSI C Programming Language" and "The C++ Programming Language" have done successfully)? Thanks in advance.
little_cat wrote: > Could you please recommend some good books that show how to exploit > the strong features of Java, rather than bombard me with a bunch of > syntactic rules and libraries (that's what "The ANSI C Programming > Language" and "The C++ Programming Language" have done successfully)? > Thanks in advance.
The one that is always on my desk is "Learning Java" published by O'Reilly.
little_cat wrote: > Can you recommend some good books that show how to exploit the strong > features of Java, rather than bombard me with a bunch of syntactic > rules and libraries (that's what "The ANSI C Programming Language" and > "The C++ Programming Language" have done successfully)? Thanks in > advance.
_Learning Java_ by O'Reilly is pretty good. It is an introductory book, so it doesn't cover things in a lot of depth. But what it does cover it generally tries to go beyond the simplest approach and give some hints how best to use it.
For example, it has one of the better explanations of generics I've seen. When it talks about Swing, it goes into some of the history of AWT first, explaining why things are the way they are. It also shows the correct way to set up most of the important Swing classes, not just merely calling "new" on the default constructor.
However, if you're beyond that, then the Sun tutorial is good. Sun's "tutorial" really isn't much of a tutorial, but it is a great repository of examples of how to use nearly every class in the API. (Or, at least a great many of the important, common classes.) If you can write Java code fine, understand the syntax, and you can usually read the APIs in the Java docs, then the tutorial is a great bridge when the Java doc doesn't make intuitive sense.
For those truly in need of hand-holding, the Java Passion website has free online classes in a large variety of Java subjects, including basic programming. It's run by a Sun researcher, Sang Shin, and it's really a good resource for getting started in a large variety of Java programming subjects.
Mark Space wrote: > _Learning Java_ by O'Reilly is pretty good. ...
> However, if you're beyond that, then the Sun tutorial is good. ...
> For those truly in need of hand-holding, the Java Passion website has > free online classes in a large variety of Java subjects, including basic > programming. It's run by a Sun researcher, Sang Shin, and it's really a > good resource for getting started in a large variety of Java programming > subjects.
Bill Space wrote: > _Learning Java_ by O'Reilly is pretty good. ...
> However, if you're beyond that, then the Sun tutorial is good. ...
> For those truly in need of hand-holding, the Java Passion website has > free online classes in a large variety of Java subjects, including basic > programming. It's run by a Sun researcher, Sang Shin, and it's really a > good resource for getting started in a large variety of Java programming > subjects.
