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Title: Limited Edition Java Library Set (4-Volume Set) by Kris Magnusson, David Flanagan, Jim Farley, William Crawford, O'Reilly ISBN: 0-596-00107-X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: man pages give me a headache
Comment: I recently got some gift certificates for the holidays and spent them on this set. I am an experienced C/C++ and Perl programmer, and I just began learning Java several months ago. With my previous language and SE knowledge I blew through a tutorial without breaking a sweat, but then (and now) comes the hard part of building the vocabulary necessary to communicate fluently in the language.
I had originally intended to buy the official Sun Java Series books, but I found that they were expensive and overly formal. To get all the current library specs requires three volumes at about $60 a piece. Plus the language spec which is written in very formal language, thus not very useful as a quick reference, and is available for free as a .pdf file should you require such formality to write a parser, for instance.
The In a Nutshell collection is perfect for my needs. It is just the sort of comprehensive resource that I was looking for, both as a working reference and as a learning tool. As a learning tool it is almost self-contained. You can look at the 'Java Examples' (The Java Cookbook by Ian Darwin is also recommended - the examples are more up to date, and the scope is broader) and find some code that approximates what you are trying to do. Then you can look at the various API calls and object heirarchies and go to the other volumes to find a description of each class and interface (Another recommendation is the set of posters that you can get bundled with "Effective Java" - also an excellent book. The posters give a visual reference of the package/class hierarchies making it very easy to understand the relationships between the various classes, sub-classes, and interface specs. A word of caution: the posters are unusually tall. I had to turn them sideways to fit them on the walls of my cube.
The reference material, typical of O'Reilly's 'Nutshell' books, is just right. Each interface is fully speced with just the right amount of verbage. You aren't left scratching your head (well, not any more that necessary) but at the same time you don't have to search endless paragraphs just to understand the syntax of one API call. It's the perfect substitute for online docs, which are never this well organized, and gives me the opportunity to pull my aching eyes away from the CRT for a moment without losing productivity.
All told, it is a very good collection that seems ideal for what I - and a lot of other professional programmers I would imagine - am doing. I can't see how any Java programmer's book collection would not be enhanced by these books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good library for learning Java
Comment: This set of books is really helpful for anybody to learn Java. It includes four helpful books - Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Enterprise in a Nutshell and Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, they are all "in a Nutshell" series from O'Reilly. As a CS1 student, these books give me a very clear concepts in programming in Java. I think they are really useful books for you!
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Title: UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition by Martin Fowler ISBN: 0321193687 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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