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Are there any recommended Java books?

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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.


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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
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