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Re: Please recommend a book

Date 2012-10-27 06:19 -0700
From Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.help
Subject Re: Please recommend a book
References <uwoauarzuw.tovtmy@mixnym.net>
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On 10/25/2012 7:50 AM, bobwhite@mixnym.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can somebody please recommend a good book for someone who wants to learn
> Java? I have a lot of programming experience but not with C or Java-based
> languages. I do understand OO concepts. I've seen many Java books for people
> with no programming experience and they go too slow for me and leave out
> important details. I went through about 250 pages of Ivor Horton's Beginning
> Java but I have no idea when I'll ever be able to do anything beside
> calculate square roots in Java! Don't get me wrong I think it's a great
> book but I don't think I'm the target audience. I'm too old for this and
> don't have time for 1500 page books at least I don't think it should take a
> thousand pages to be productive in a new language but maybe I am wrong since
> I don't work in any modern languages.

I have not looked at beginning Java books recently, so I can't recommend
a book. I am learning another programming language right now, and do
have a strategy.

I get a book targeted to beginners, but skip-read some sections.

For example, the book I just finished reading had a long section
explaining rounding errors in IEEE 754 64-bit binary floating point.
I've been painfully aware of the issues for decades, so I took about 5
minutes to go through a long chapter, just reading enough to be sure I
was not missing anything language-specific.

If I can't skip-read a chapter in a few minutes it is teaching something
I don't already know, so I want to take the time to read it properly.

Patricia

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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
    Re: Please recommend a book bobwhite@mixnym.net - 2012-11-01 14:25 +0000
      Re: Please recommend a book Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-01 13:47 -0400

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