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| Subject | Re: Java 5 and JAva 7 |
| Date | Sat, 30 Jun 2012 10:03:28 -0700 |
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On 6/30/2012 9:15 AM, ericmiranda7@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everyone out there. I hope this is the right group to post in. > Alright, I'm a total, Total newbie at JAva, Eclipse and the whole > lot. I recently downloaded the book "Java for Dummies 2nd Edition", > which is based on Java 5, and Java 7 is out, am I right? Now the > question is, would it be okay if I continue with the 2nd Edition? Or > is Java 7 totally different? Thank you for your help. > Off the top of my head, later versions of Java were much smaller incremental changes over Java 5. So you are pretty good. New features in Java 6: <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/features-141434.html> New features in Java 7: <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/jdk7-relnotes-418459.html> Java 5 is a decent starting point, with generics and the concurrency library being introduced then. I'm trying to remember for sure, but I think also the new memory model was introduced with Java 5, which is hugely important. So I think you are OK with Java 5 to start. Also a "For Dummies" book is unlikely to go into too much detail, so I doubt you'd run into any of the changes too soon anyway.
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Java 5 and JAva 7 ericmiranda7@gmail.com - 2012-06-30 09:15 -0700
Re: Java 5 and JAva 7 Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-06-30 12:35 -0400
Re: Java 5 and JAva 7 markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-30 10:03 -0700
Re: Java 5 and JAva 7 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-30 15:43 -0700
Re: Java 5 and JAva 7 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-30 20:50 -0700
Re: Java 5 and JAva 7 ericmiranda7@gmail.com - 2012-06-30 22:34 -0700
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