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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Are there any recommended Java books? |
| Date | 2022-05-19 15:08 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <t65mhi$5hh$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
When I taught myself C I used the excellent Kernighan & Richie's "The C Programming Language" - this was a few years after I started to program, so already knew Algol 60, COBOL and a couple of assemblers (ICL 1900's PLAN and MC6800). A year or two later I discovered Kernighan & Pike's "The Practice of Programming".IMO this is a book every new C programmer should have, and which I picked up a few more useful ideas from. I also found "Informal introduction to Algol 68", by S. G. van der Meulen and C. H. Lindsey which was excellent - in fact thats the only book about a programming language I've seen with example code so good and so well described that it made me laugh. I used what I learned from it to write an improved version of the job accounting program used by ICL's George 3 operating system in Algol 68R. Another few years on and a group of us did a week-long Java 2 course, which gave us a start, but little more than that. So, I went looking for a Java book equivalent in quality to the K&R C book, but didn't find anything to match it. The best I managed to find was Ivor Horton's 'Beginning Java 2', which taught me pretty well what I needed to get up to speed in Java, but it didn't mention 'make' equivalents at all, but fortunately I managed to find 'ant', which so far has done everything I've needed it to do. So, what's currently available for learning Java as a second or third programming language that are as good as the two C books I mentioned? Finding anything as good as the Algol 68 book would be a huge bonus too. -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org
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Are there any recommended Java books? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-05-19 15:08 +0000
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> - 2022-05-19 12:42 -0500
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-05-19 19:10 +0000
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> - 2022-05-19 14:51 -0500
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2022-05-19 20:11 +0000
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Knute Johnson <knute2022@585ranch.com> - 2022-05-19 20:29 -0500
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2022-05-19 13:03 -0700
Re: Are there any recommended Java books? "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2022-05-19 11:04 -0700
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