Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-19 Thread Todd Fincannon
For the Java libraries, I like Java Cookbook 2ed by Ian Darwin. It doesn't spend much time on the language. It includes introductions to Swing, network clients and servers, regular expressions, introspection, and JDBC. It was published in 2004, so it doesn't cover Java 6. Todd Fincannon

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-17 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Mar 16, 4:35 pm, Mark Engelberg mark.engelb...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, with respect to Clojure, probably the most important thing is to learn the Java *libraries*.  What are good books about that? The Sun Java tutorials are actually pretty good: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread DonLeo
Hi, My background: about 40 years experience in many fields of computing, mainly in the Scientific Computing Area. My experience ranges from working with small machines (not in physical size - 4 Kbyte core memory) in 1970, early adapter of Unix (1976), early experimentor with Linux (from version

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Drummond
2009/3/16 DonLeo leo.noordhui...@gmail.com: What book or books should I order to base my JAVA knowledge on ? I would suggest the following: 1. Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel I learned C++ by reading Thinking in C++ by the same author so it was a natural progression to move on to this book.

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread Mark Feeney
I hate +1 emails, but this is essentially just that. Java Concurrency in Practice gets my vote as the most important book to read about Java. I always keep it and Effective Java close at hand. Both of these are references for when you know some java; they're not really tutorials. I haven't

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Stadig
The 3rd edition of Thinking in Java is available on the author's website for free. http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ Paul On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Mark Feeney mark.fee...@gmail.com wrote: I hate +1 emails, but this is essentially just that. Java Concurrency in Practice gets my

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Drummond
2009/3/16 Paul Stadig p...@stadig.name: The 3rd edition of Thinking in Java is available on the author's website for free. http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ That's true but beware it is quite old now and doesn't cover Java 5 or 6. The fourth edition (which isn't freely available) is the

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread Mark Engelberg
Of course, with respect to Clojure, probably the most important thing is to learn the Java *libraries*. What are good books about that? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this

Re: Which Java book(s) to order

2009-03-16 Thread CuppoJava
Everything I've learned about Java, I got out of Beginning Java 2 by Ivor Horton. It covers the base Java language in the first ten chapters, and the rest are dealing with the libraries. I think it pretty much sums up the entire Java platform, as well as a clear perspective on the Java way of