Re: "personal" to Newbies
Richard Reynolds wrote:
I'm not sure that would help, what's crucial depends to much on the sort of
thing you're doing. If you're just learning to program or even learning to
use java you should probably be using an appropriate book.
Do agree with all the other comments though, especially about the sheer
number of packages, frameworks and utilities that are now considered part of
the mainstream java world. I've been doing a lot of C again lately, it's so
small! I've got one reference book with a couple of hundred pages, it's
pretty much all I'd ever need!
The C reference libraries are pretty limited compared to Java. Java has
standardized GUI handling; in C, you'd need either a GTK, X, or the
Windows API as reference to include in this list. Threading is
standardized in Java--C needs either pthread or WinThread reference. I
think the sizes are roughly comparable if these listings are taken into
account.
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