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Re: Java Text Book

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Steve wrote:
> A friend of mine wants to learn Java.
> 
> The last full text book I went through was a zillion years ago.  It was 
> Bruce Ekels "Thinking In Java".  Excellent book, but it is probably way 
> out of date with about 4 major releases of Java happening since.
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone recommend a Java text book that covers OO concepts well, 
> collections, a lot of the "new" post Java 5 stuff?

_Thinking in Java_ is a deeply flawed textbook for learning Java.

The Java Tutorials to start, then one of the many books others are sure to 
recommend, supplemented by IBM Developerworks (Java section), and followed 
early in the learning curve with Josh Bloch's _Effective Java_.

I used "Learning Java in 21 Days" back in 1999, but I'd already been programming 
a number of years, had looked at Java before, and was familiar with O-O programming 
and concurrent programming.

It took about seven days.

I used groups of fellow programmers a year or two later to help me learn Java Enterprise.

Mostly just read every damn thing.

If your friend has no prior experience or interest in computer programming, prepare for 
the one out of three odds that they'll never catch on, and the one out of three odds that they'll
only partially catch on.

(Odds assertions based on a paper out of Cambridge University (UK) that I read a while back.)

-- 
Lew

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Java Text Book Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2013-01-09 17:18 -0500
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