Best Java Book.
Chin Chia
I am new to Java and experience in C programming.
May I know which is a good book to start on programming Java and Java
applets.. I would prefer a book that has lots of examples and falls
back to fundamentals. e.g. K+R C
gutierrez
I followed someone's advice from this newsgroup and purchased
"Java in a Nutshell" a while back. This book along with the javadoc utility
is really all you need. The book lays the foundation for java programming.
Anything else you can pick up from the JDK source code. Comments are
readable and well done. Java has been the easiest language to learn
for me (C++ background). If you're just familiar with C, then it may be
a little rougher for you, but a language is a language. The OO paradigm
is the real learning curve for C programmers and even C++ programmers since
the language doesn't force you to think in objects as Java does.
My only gripe about java is most of the class and exception names are
so darn long! YUCK!
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mario l gutierrez mgut...@rohan.sdsu.edu
David Feustel
gutierrez (mgut...@rohan.sdsu.edu) wrote:
: > May I know which is a good book to start on programming Java and Java
: > applets.. I would prefer a book that has lots of examples and falls
: > back to fundamentals. e.g. K+R C
: I followed someone's advice from this newsgroup and purchased
: "Java in a Nutshell" a while back. This book along with the javadoc utility
: is really all you need. The book lays the foundation for java programming.
The code in this book is available via ftp from ftp.ora.com.
The code comes both in source and object so you can run it even if
you don't yet have a Java compiler. Very Handy and a great timesaver.
--
Dave Feustel http://www.mixi.net/~feustel/
219-483-1857 mailto:feu...@netcom.com
Weiqi Gao
mgut...@rohan.sdsu.edu (gutierrez) wrote:
>Chin Chia (chin...@singnet.com.sg) wrote:
>> I am new to Java and experience in C programming.
>> May I know which is a good book to start on programming Java and Java
>> applets.. I would prefer a book that has lots of examples and falls
>> back to fundamentals. e.g. K+R C
>I followed someone's advice from this newsgroup and purchased
>"Java in a Nutshell" a while back. This book along with the javadoc utility
>is really all you need. The book lays the foundation for java programming.
>Anything else you can pick up from the JDK source code. Comments are
>readable and well done. Java has been the easiest language to learn
>for me (C++ background). If you're just familiar with C, then it may be
>a little rougher for you, but a language is a language. The OO paradigm
>is the real learning curve for C programmers and even C++ programmers since
>the language doesn't force you to think in objects as Java does.
>My only gripe about java is most of the class and exception names are
>so darn long! YUCK!
I went into the bookstore yesterday, and bought the least expensive
Java book. There used to be two---Java in a Nutshell, and Java
Essentials for C and C++ Programmers. However the nutshell was sold
out, so I bought the latter, by Barry Boone (Addison-Wesley Developers
Press ISBN 0-201-47946-X, $19.95US).
This book is so good, I finished reading it in a day. It took the
approach that "JAVA = (C++) - (C) - (pointers) + (gc) + (packages like
java.lang, awt, etc.)"
It assumes full knowledge of C++/OO/Windows or X. For a first book in
Java, it's excellent. I haven't tried out the examples, so I don't
know if they contain a lot of errors. I also don't know what Java is
before yesterday. So take the advise with a grain of salt.
--
Weiqi Gao
weiq...@crl.com
Ron Tarrant
Weiqi Gao wrote:
>
> mgut...@rohan.sdsu.edu (gutierrez) wrote:
>
> I went into the bookstore yesterday, and bought the least expensive
> Java book. There used to be two---Java in a Nutshell, and Java
> Essentials for C and C++ Programmers. However the nutshell was sold
> out, so I bought the latter, by Barry Boone (Addison-Wesley Developers
> Press ISBN 0-201-47946-X, $19.95US).
>
> This book is so good, I finished reading it in a day. It took the
> approach that "JAVA = (C++) - (C) - (pointers) + (gc) + (packages like
> java.lang, awt, etc.)"
>
> It assumes full knowledge of C++/OO/Windows or X. For a first book in
> Java, it's excellent. I haven't tried out the examples, so I don't
> know if they contain a lot of errors. I also don't know what Java is
> before yesterday. So take the advise with a grain of salt.
>
> --
> Weiqi Gao
> weiq...@crl.com
I agree. This is the book that opened up Java for me. I've been typing
in some of the code examples and so far none suffer from typo-itis.
-Ron Tarrant
Matt Judson
gutierrez wrote:
>
> Chin Chia (chin...@singnet.com.sg) wrote:
> > May I know which is a good book to start on programming Java and Java
> > applets.. I would prefer a book that has lots of examples and falls
> > back to fundamentals. e.g. K+R C
> I followed someone's advice from this newsgroup and purchased
> "Java in a Nutshell" a while back. This book along with the javadoc utility
The other advantage of "Java in a Nutshell" is that it costs ~$15, as opposed to
$40 - $50 for the other books out there.
On the other hand, it may not be enough to get started if you're not already a
C/C++ programmer.
-Matt