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Re: Please recommend a book

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markspace said:

> Some of this is just "time," like I mentioned before.  Java has a BIG 
> API and you won't learn it well by just reading one thing.  Getting a 
> few basic books and looking at how they do it will give you some ideas. 
>   In other words, there's "patterns" here that work, and some that don't.

Ok.

> Also, the API is spread out.  It's been improved incrementally for 17 
> odd years, and similar things are not all together.  In general to read 
> user input you want the System, not Console.  Console is recent and just 
> contains some extensions to the basic I/O that people were asking for. 
> System.in is the workhorse.  Wrap that in a BufferedReader and read from 
> that.

Whaa?!?

> Time and just plowing through will get you there after a while.  The 
> important bit is to do it.

I'm realizing this isn't going to be like learning another procedural or
scripting language. I usually can write something meaningful in a new one of
those the same day.

> Here's the most basic method.  Try to build on this, even if fancier 
> methods are available, until you get more familiar with the Java API and 
> things start to be easier.  Note that for quick-and-dirty and testing I 
> think it's better to NOT catch the exception, just declare the main 
> method with " throws Exception" and let the system do its thing.

snip

Thanks for the link and code. I'd still like to find a book targeted to what
I was asking about and especially an abstract explanation (no pun intended)
of how to use the API doc but I'll go through the tutorials people
recommended and see if I get anywhere this time. The Core Java books look
good too! That will be the first one I try.

Thanks to all.

Bob

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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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