Re: Please recommend me a concise, readable and complete summary of Java syntax

Alan Mackenzie <acm@xxxxxx> wrote on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:37:52 +0000:

> To fix CC Mode, I need some good Java documentation. Not a 400 page
> beginners' book, full of vague, warm-feeling reassurances about how easy
> and useful Java is. Also not 10 pages of dense unreadable Backus-Naur
> Form description full of masses of questionable abstractions. More
> something in the middle - readable documentation which is crisp and to
> the point, which concentrates on the Java language (rather than
> programming techniques), with a complete description of Java's syntax.

> Either a URL or a book recommendation (not too expensive ;-) would be
> fine.

Hi, Robert and Peter!

Thanks for the tips! I had a look at the JLS and JDK documentation.
Both of them are a bit heavy for what I need, though it's good to know
where to come back to if I ever start hacking Java.

In the end, I had a look round a large bookshop yesterday afternoon and
bought the snappily titled "Java 2 v5.0 Tiger New Features" by Herbert
Schildt. It's reasonably slim, yet still readable. The chapter on
generics is around 50 pages long, and it's readable without being too
prolix.

Again, thanks for your replies!

--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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