Re: Recomended books for learning Java


Lew wrote:
Jeff Higgins wrote:
news.bluecom.no wrote:
Thank you very much for the feedback, Jeff.
But it doesn't answer my main question, help in finding some good
resources for learning Java development.


Core Java 2 is my personal favorite.
<http://www.horstmann.com/corejava.html>

Lew has given two excellent suggestions.

I would add search the Sun site.
<http://java.sun.com/>

I believe I understand the inspiration behind your comment:
"I don't want to waste my time searching the web for recomandations.",
but it came off pretty arrogant at first reading.

You cannot be a good Java programmer without reading /Effective Java/, by
Joshua Bloch.


This morning I got permission to spend some money on (yet another) computer
book.
I've decided to purchase "Java Concurrency in Practice". I made this
decision because
the other title in my "top two list of Java titles to purchase", "Effective
Java Programming
Language Guide" is soon to be released as 2nd Edition. (November 2007
apparently).
Thinking about "Algorithms in Java", I have the C++ edition so not sure if I
need Java.


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