Effective Java: A Programming Language Guide (Java Series) |
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Joshua Bloch
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Pages: 384 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0321356683
Pub: Prentice Hall
Pub date: 2008-05-22
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3474
Reader Reviews:
Pragmatic, insightful. Written by a true master of the Java language. (0/0 people found this helpful)
I'd describe this book as being essential reading for any serious Java developer.
* Joshua provides a clear, concise and insightful guide that will help you better understand the intricacies of Java.
* The book of 78 recipes and helped me immensely to improve my understanding of Java.
* It's provides a no holds barred insight into some of the peculiarities of the Java API's as it has matured over the years.
* In particularly found the chapter on:
** Generics one of the most illuminating I've read. (Though I still find the Java syntax rather odd in places!)
** Enums and Annotations
** a good intro to the more up to date ways of doing Concurrency.
** I also found the defensive copying example most enlightening.
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