On 11/9/06, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
#1 A Good Book, I'ld really like to find a good book targeted towards someone learning Java for someone who is already pretty good in C/C++, my time is severely constrained I don't really have the time or resources to spend on either a high level Java book for an experienced Java developer, or a Java for Dummies type book, that wants to teach me from scratch how to program. I feel at present my biggest weaknesses are not in the "code from scratch" dept, but in the re-use dept. i.e. How can I leverage exisiting libraries to speed my development cycle. I'm not sure I can explain that requirement, but suffice it to say that other than the standard Java libraries "Swing etc", I cannot seem to get regularly available libraries such as JavaSVN into my code.
The "*** in a Nutshell" O'Reilly books are awesome. I have no particular experience with the Java one, but I have found the Python and C Nutshell books to be _extremely_ helpful
#2 A nice IDE, since my time using Java several years ago a plethora IDE's for Java have emerged. NetBeans, Eclipse, JBuilder etc and blah. I've been using NetBeans now for a couple of weeks, but I really feel I've out grown it. My major specific gripe is that if you use the visual editor to create your GUI, you cannot modify certain sections of code directly and instead have to use the visual editor to edit them, or leave the IDE make my edits in a standard text editor and then reload. Which seems to me to be an unnessacry PITA. I'ld just like some advice on what IDE you use for Java development and why you like it vs others you may have tried.
I have yet to find an IDE that I like better than Vim, despite the lack of a general project overview in Vim. It looks like XCode just might do it, but that is Mac only. A lot of my fellow students swear by Eclipse, so you might give that a try. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
