Thinking in Java 4th Edition. For an assessable and thorough introduction I always recommend that. I guess people swear by the Head First book but I like something meatier. After they should read first Effective Java and then Code Complete (Maybe Clean Code is similar but I haven't read that yet).
On Mar 1, 7:52 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > I hope the later editions of Just Java have improved the one I cut my > teeth on in 98, I absolutely hated it for its poor organization and > cohesion. For tutorial based material to newbies I'd definitely > recommend Head First Java, later to be supplemented with Head First > Design Patterns. They are very visual and story based books that makes > it fun and a breeze to go through the material. No one book will do it > perfectly of course. > > /Casper > > On 1 Mar., 03:43, Bill Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Back in the day (like 1999), "Just Java" was a great book. I know it > > has been updated since then, but I'm not sure if its current. Peter > > van der Linden writes really well. > > > On Feb 27, 5:59 pm, Paul Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The list of suggestions so far are: > > > > - Java How to Program, Deitel & Deitel > > > - Head First Java, Sierra & Bates > > > - Thinking In Java, Eckel > > > - 2 Gig log file, Catchpole > > > > It's a tough call... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
