Best Java Programming Reference
Essential Java Programming Skills--Made Easy! Fully updated for Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8), Java: A Beginner's Guide , Sixth Edition gets you started programming in Java right away. Herb’s acclaimed books include Java: The Complete Reference, Java: A Beginner's Guide, C++: The Complete Reference and C#: The Complete Reference .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Many of the exercises (around 75%) use specific and/or real-world examples but there are a good number of them that are more conceptual and I found these hard to follow (around 25%)."
"My only constructive critiques are: - On my Windows 8.1 PC, the Kindle app doesn't show the diagrams, i.e. "Try this..." - For code examples, only the publisher's top level web site is listed, and I couldn't find the code examples searching the site...Should be an exact URL. Above are technical problems."
"Excellent good starting book."
"I bought this for my nephew and he is getting a lot out of it."
"Really, really dense, but if you have the time to devote to it, the very thorough nature of this book will leave you feeling like you worked in the industry for at least a year."
"Good book especially if you have some experience."
Data types, variables, arrays, and operators Control statements Classes, objects, and methods Method overloading and overriding Inheritance Interfaces and packages Exception handling Multithreaded programming Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations The I/O classes Generics Lambda expressions String handling The Collections Framework Networking Event handling AWT and Swing The Concurrent API The Stream API Regular expressions JavaFX JavaBeans Applets and servlets Much, much more. Herb’s acclaimed books include Java: The Complete Reference, Java: A Beginner's Guide, C++: The Complete Reference and C#: The Complete Reference .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I would like to have seen more examples that relate abstract classes and interfaces to real life object oriented design, but overall, this is an informative and useful text."
"My only disappointment with the purchase of this paper book is that it did not include a PDF version, as did a recent Manning book I purchased on Spring."
"This would be an excellent text for an undergraduate computer science, software engineering, or information technology student who has had at least one course in JAVA and read Schildt's first text."
"I was unsure whether to purchase Java: The Complete Reference as a paper or e book."
"I was almost a novice but having watched some basic tutorials on youtube I found this book very clear and logic in the explanations."
"A comprehensive guide to java."
"Good for novice and intermediate level programmers."
"Great for Java pros that haven't read a java book before as it covers all the concepts, core libraries and history of Java."
Since different candidates have different time constraints, EPI includes a study guide with several scenarios, ranging from weekend Hackathon to semester long preparation with a recommended a subset of problems for each scenario. All problems are classified in terms of their difficulty level and include many variants to help you apply what you have learned more widely. It emphasizes problems that stem from real-world applications and can be coded up in a reasonable time, and is a wonderful complement to a traditional computer science algorithms and data structures course."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is not an "easy" book compared with the other popular interview preparing books. (Just like how you train yourself in Gym). The pearls in this book are how the ideas are being developed and how one coding problem will evolve in different scenarios."
"Great book, I own both editions (C++ and Java) and highly recommend it to everybody."
"This is a great book with good problems and detailed explanations."
"This book is for advanced programmers, includes advanced Java language concepts."
"I am having interviews and getting asked a lot of questions from this very book."
"It's pretty good except the dynamic programming chapter."
"A must-have book if you are preparing for technical interviews."
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Since different candidates have different time constraints, EPI includes a study guide with several scenarios, ranging from weekend Hackathon to semester long preparation with a recommended a subset of problems for each scenario. All problems are classified in terms of their difficulty level and include many variants to help you apply what you have learned more widely. It emphasizes problems that stem from real-world applications and can be coded up in a reasonable time, and is a wonderful complement to a traditional computer science algorithms and data structures course."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is not an "easy" book compared with the other popular interview preparing books. (Just like how you train yourself in Gym). The pearls in this book are how the ideas are being developed and how one coding problem will evolve in different scenarios."
"Great book, I own both editions (C++ and Java) and highly recommend it to everybody."
"This is a great book with good problems and detailed explanations."
"This book is for advanced programmers, includes advanced Java language concepts."
"I am having interviews and getting asked a lot of questions from this very book."
"It's pretty good except the dynamic programming chapter."
"A must-have book if you are preparing for technical interviews."
Best Beginner's Guides to Java Programming
This highly anticipated new edition of the classic, Jolt Award-winning work has been thoroughly updated to cover Java SE 5 and Java SE 6 features introduced since the first edition. Each chapter in the book consists of several “items” presented in the form of a short, standalone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and outstanding code examples. “Josh Bloch gives great insight into best practices that really can only be discovered after years of study and experience.” —Mark Mascolino, software engineer. It clearly covers many of the language/platform subtleties and trickery you need to learn to become a real Java master.” —Victor Wiewiorowski, vice president development and code quality manager, ValueCommerce Co., Tokyo, Japan. Each one illustrates in simple, practical terms the limits of programming on intuition alone, or taking the most direct path to a solution without fully understanding what the language offers.”. —Michael Ernest, Inkling Research, Inc. “I don’t find many programming books that make me want to read every page—this is one of them.” —Matt Tucker, chief technical officer, Jive Software. “I picked this book up two weeks ago and can safely say I learned more about the Java language in three days of reading than I did in three months of study!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Whether you're a seasoned Java developer or a beginner, or whether or not you've read the first edition already, Joshua Bloch's Effective Java (2nd Edition) is definitely worth a read--and while you're at it, pick up a copy of Java Puzzlers, too."
"I just finished reading (and absorbing) the entire book and I must say that I really loved it, and plan on using it as a reference going forward."
"The author is clear to point out why these things are problems in terms of either code reuse, extensibility, type safety, or some other aspect, so even though it wasn't necessarily an issue in the context of a school project, in the real world it certainly might be."
"Powerful at showing Java idioms and best practices."
"Great advice for writing good quality Java code!"
"Great book, essential for learning java."
"Others have posted some good reviews of this book, so I will just add that in 2015 this book is still relevant despite its age."
"The best part is that Bloch is not proposing any kind of radical new programming method, he is simply organizing and presenting tried and true Java programming patterns and idioms. The items presented are things you may know, or half-know, and all it takes is the proper presentation and explanation to completely "ice" things in your mind."
Best Java Servlets Software Programming
This new edition of Murach's Java Servlets and JSP makes it easier than ever for Java developers to master web programming. When he's not programming or writing books about programming, he can be found surfing or writing music.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I purchased this book to have an understanding about servlets and how they work, and this book does a great job doing so."
"Had a previous version too and both are great Java books."
"What can I say, this is my 4th Murach book."
"I needed a basic crash course on Servlets and JSP technology, and this book has served me with just that."
"Bought it for school and it teaches what you would expect."
"Much good material, good broad coverage, great examples, but not very deep in some areas."