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Re: Please recommend a book

Newsgroups comp.lang.java.help
Date 2012-10-29 13:42 -0700
References <k6m3ti$n58$1@dont-email.me> <uauyrnthsg.gvjmts@mixnym.net>
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Subject Re: Please recommend a book
From Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

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bobw...@ wrote:

[attribution restored - bob, you need to attribute your quotes]
David Lamb wrote:
>> If so your problem isn't so much O-O specifically as the more basic idea
>> of abstract data types.
> 
> I don't think that's true because I'm familiar with abstract data types. My
> confusion starts when I say gee let me read a string from the keyboard. Now

Patricia gave you canonical advice for that.

Also, so did everyone who pointed you to the tutorials:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/scanfor.html
et seq.

> where do I go from there? I look at the Java API doc and try to find
> something that looks like console IO. Ok, I see a function there, but now
> how do I use it? I have to set up exception handling before I can do that!

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/index.html

> How do I do that? And it goes downhill from there.

Google "java <the function you found> tutorial".

bobw...@ wrote:
>>> And I don't think I understand how to read the API doc. I wish
>>> there were a guide to this specific issue.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Java+how+to+read+Javadocs+for+the+API

>> Hmm. Well, I rarely read an API description before I read the tutorial 
>> associated with the API (or at least the tutorial for whatever 
>> higher-level concepts use the APIs). So I usually have a pretty good 
>> mental framework into which to plug the details. Perhaps this ties back 
>> into other things you said about why the tutorials weren't particularly 
>> helpful for you?
> 
> It may be a chicken and egg thing that I just have to push through somehow.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Java+how+to+read+Javadocs+for+the+API

-- 
Lew

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Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-25 14:50 +0000
  Re: Please recommend a book Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> - 2012-10-25 17:44 +0100
  Re: Please recommend a book markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-25 09:50 -0700
    Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-26 14:54 +0000
      Re: Please recommend a book "Charles Hottel" <chottel@earthlink.net> - 2012-10-26 11:14 -0400
      Re: Please recommend a book Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-26 09:32 -0700
        Re: Please recommend a book David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-10-26 17:17 -0400
          Re: Please recommend a book Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-26 15:04 -0700
          Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-28 22:05 +0000
          Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-29 11:07 +0000
            Re: Please recommend a book David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-10-29 10:30 -0400
              Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-29 19:09 +0000
                Re: Please recommend a book Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-29 12:38 -0700
                Re: Please recommend a book Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-10-29 13:42 -0700
                Re: Please recommend a book markspace <-@.> - 2012-10-29 15:29 -0700
                Re: Please recommend a book Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-31 07:28 -0700
                Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-11-03 20:37 +0000
                Re: Please recommend a book Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-11-03 16:22 -0700
                Re: Please recommend a book markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-03 20:42 -0700
                Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-11-04 14:40 +0000
                Re: Please recommend a book Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-11-04 20:27 -0800
  Re: Please recommend a book Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-26 09:24 -0700
  Re: Please recommend a book Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-10-26 09:31 -0700
  Re: Please recommend a book Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-27 06:19 -0700
    Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-28 21:05 +0000
    Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-10-29 12:08 +0000
  Re: Please recommend a book Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-28 19:09 -0400
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