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Java Precisely, 2nd Edition
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by Peter Sestoft
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Paperback: 167 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press; 2 edition August 1, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262693259
ISBN-13: 978-0262693257
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 8 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Product Description
This concise guide to the Java programming language, version 5.0, offers a quick reference for the reader who wants to know the language in greater detail than that provided by the standard text or language reference book. It presents the entire Java programming language and essential parts of the class libraries -- the collection classes and the input-output classes.
The second edition adds material on autoboxing of primitive types, string formatting, variable-arity methods, the enhanced for statement, enum types, generic types and methods, reflection, and meta-data annotations. It has been updated throughout to reflect the changes from Java 1.4 to Java 5.0. The final section summarizes and illustrates the new features of Java 5.0 and compares them to the C# programming language. General rules are shown on left-hand pages and corresponding examples on right-hand pages. All examples are fragments of legal Java programs and the complete ready-to-run example programs can be found at the book's Web site, http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~sestoft/javaprecisely/.
Book Info
Provides a concise reference for the Java programming language and some of its essential libraries. Covers Java 2, versions 1.3 and 1.4. Intended both for students learning Java and for more experienced Java programmers. Softcover.
--This text refers to the
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Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Java Precisely (Paperback)
If you're already a programmer, then Java Precisely is the fastest way for you to pick up Java. Finally, after spending embarrasing amounts of money on other books, I found the ONE book on Java that I like: - This is a no-nonsense, no-frills book. Very precise, very concise. - The book assumes the reader knows how to program, and perhaps even knows how to program in an object oriented language. If you know CLOS, C++ or Smalltalk, or if you've played with object-oriented "extensions" of other languages, then this books is THE shortcut to programming in Java now. Not tomorrow, not in 16 lessons, NOW. - This book will not teach you computer science. It will not teach you programming. It will not teach you object orientated programming. You get straight to the point of learning the syntax and semantics of Java, and you get A TASTE of the class libraries (IO, collections, and more). - Most Java books fall into the following categories: (A) Intro programming -- nice if that's what you want, but very boring if you already know how to program; Also very heavy! (B) "Web programming in N days"-type of books. These aren't as precise, aren't complete, cover GUI, and typically the older and faster AWT rather than Swing, and cover a host of other issues that are not really related to the Java langauge. (C) Complete References -- These are great dust collectors on your shelf. Impossibly heavy, prohibitively expensive, outdated as soon as you buy them. They're not the way to learn an object oriented language ANYWAY: Use Java Precisely to learn the syntax, semantics and basic paradigms of the language (threads, exceptions, etc), with a few very specific excursions into the class library, and THEN get a good IDE (my preference is IntelliJ's IDEA) and learn to use the online Java documentation to find your way through the immense class library. You don't want to own a printed version of the class library any more than you want to own a phone book for the entire US -- You want tools to find what you need online! - The book is dirt cheap. Use the book as follows: - Buy it, admire it, show it to your friends, try to get it back - Just start programming. Follow the examples in the book, page by page, and bug people for help when you're stuck. A good IDE will work wonders in how fast you can pick up a new language! - Speed-read it over a weekend, just to get an idea of what the language offers - Start working on your project, referring to language issues every time you need something -- the book is actually small enough to find things in it, and the index is great. Use the IDE to browse the online documentation for the class library, to find the classes you need and their documentation. Use Sun's online search engine to find examples, tutorials, FAQs and other documentation. - This book is small enough to take anywhere -- take it everywhere.
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