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Re: Are there any recommended Java books?

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On Thu, 19 May 2022 12:42:45 -0500, Knute Johnson wrote:

> Hey Martin, how are you doing?  Get any gliding in?
>
Not enough: weather and trailer lighting are ongoing issues :-( 

However I did have fun 'flying' the club's simulator for launch failure 
checks followed by doing them, together with stalling and spinning 
exercises for done real from the top of a 3,500ft aero tow in the club's 
Perkoz two-seater.

> I don't actually own these books but the Oracle list that sends me stuff
> sent a review of Cay Horstmann's latest iteration of the Core Java
> books.  I think folks think these two are some of the best out there.
> 
> https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/core-java-12th-edition-
horstmann?
source=:em:nw:mt::::RC_WWMK200429P00043C0056:NSL400230298&elq_mid=222615&sh=161306072217121913081213312924132219&cmid=WWMK200429P00043C0056
>

Thanks for the review - looks useful, if expensive. Maybe I should have 
mentioned that I'm currently handing on the administrative role of roster 
manager in my gliding club. 

While in role I wrote a moderately complex Roster editor, which is used to 
build the six duty rosters for each 6 month gliding season. It implements 
rules to implement checks for duty clashes (somebody who is both an 
instructor and a tug pilot must not get both duties on the same weekend, 
only one member of a glider syndicate should get a duty on any day so the 
others can go fly, .... though its code is fairly simple (all Swing, no 
multithreading, all files are CSV format and I wrote a CSV class yonks 
ago). I also wrote a CSV editor which is optimised for handling large 
files, i.e. more than 16K lines *some* spreadsheets are limited to!, and 
for running search & destroy passes across these files - something that  
is needed if a rostered member leaves the club immediately after the 
roster was published. That HAS happened!

Anyway, my successor wants to learn Java, which is why I'm asking about 
Java books.

-- 

Martin    | martin at
Gregorie  | gregorie dot org

Thread

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
  Re: Are there any recommended Java books? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2022-05-19 19:43 -0400

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