Re: Recommended books to learn Java

From:

Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

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Date:

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:26:59 -0700 (PDT)

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Robert Klemme wrote:

Dan Kalish wrote:

I'm an experienced programmer and would like to learn Java, in order
to make myself more marketable.

In particular, during the period 1968-1978 I worked years as a
Scientific Progammer, primarily programming in Fortran IV (66?).
Since then, I have occasionally programmed in SNOBOL, PASCAL, BASIC,

Plato, Fortran 95 and C++. Thus, I don't need a beginner's book.

Yes, you do. Maybe not a beginning programmer's book, but definitely a beginning
Java programmer's book.

I have over thirteen years' professional experience developing Java and I still
learn something new every time I read the tutorials.

Any recommendations on books for learning Java?

/Effective Java/ by Joshua Bloch is a must-have.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/effectivejava-136174.html

So is /Java Concurrency in Practice/ by Brian Goetz, et al.

http://www.javaconcurrencyinpractice.com/

I'd first look at web resources, for example Sun's Java Tutorials.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/

They cover most basic language features and also most important parts of
the standard library (collections, IO). I'd say the language itself is
fairly easy to grok - getting to know the standard library usually takes
a bit more time if only because of the volume.

But it's well worth the effort.

Start with the java.lang, java.io and java.util packages.

The API docs are a constant source of knowledge and inspiration.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/

--
Lew

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