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Java in a Nutshell
With more than 700,000 copies sold to date, "Java in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly is clearly the favorite resource amongst the legion of developers and programmers using Java technology. And now, with the release of the 5.0 version of Java, O'Reilly has given the book that defined the "in a Nutshell" category another impressive tune-up.
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Paperback, Fifth Edition, 1224 pages
Published
March 25th 2005
by O'Reilly Media
(first published March 1996)
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I know what you're thinking... "Why did you read the 4th edition in 2010? It only covers up to Java 1.4 - and it was published 8 years ago." My answer? "It was what my library had. And it covered what I needed to learn."
I suppose I should have known better, considering the O'Reilly "Nutshell" format. A couple hundred pages of "nutshell" overview material to digest some high-level concepts -- but you're wading through generic code samples. Then several hundred more pages of what is basically an i ...more
I suppose I should have known better, considering the O'Reilly "Nutshell" format. A couple hundred pages of "nutshell" overview material to digest some high-level concepts -- but you're wading through generic code samples. Then several hundred more pages of what is basically an i ...more
Thoughts starting at the beginning of the book:
I enjoyed this book. It goes into detail about most aspects of the language.
It anticipates questions that arise and clears them up later.
It is very verbose, so I started skipping parts after the first chapter.
It spends too much time on easy parts and glosses over complicated ones in some cases.
Not really "in a nutshell". There's a lot of information that I would call trivia.
I enjoyed this book. It goes into detail about most aspects of the language.
It anticipates questions that arise and clears them up later.
It is very verbose, so I started skipping parts after the first chapter.
It spends too much time on easy parts and glosses over complicated ones in some cases.
Not really "in a nutshell". There's a lot of information that I would call trivia.
Purchased this before I decided to do CSSE2002 next year. At the time I thought I'd be doing it this semester, and as that subject is all Java, I though that a $2 investment was worthwhile.
A brief & not in depth overview of Java. Not bad for working with Java without understanding the language.
Well structured and well written. My solid base in Java language.
O'reilly's best book for Java 101 and a great reference book to keep.
A classic primer
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it is ok
It's hard to meaningfully evaluate a book about Java 1.1 in 2008. This book was certainly at my side throughout CS 1502 (Introduction to Programming), and I imagine newer editions are similarly strong. Then again, there's really no need for this book, given the great Sun documentation.
Like all the O'Reilly Nutshell books, this is clear, helpful, and human. It's not a take-you-by-the-hand tutorial, but it's tutorial enough if you've already mastered a language or two, and it'll be well worth keeping on your shelf after you're trained and effective.
The first third of the book is a pleasantly terse primer on the language and some of the more common platform features, including a section on the features that were new to Java 5. The rest is an API reference which mainly serves to keep the book heavy and expensive.
Jul 27, 2014
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Having a background in C and C++, I foolishly tried to learn Java with this book. It is pretty much unusable as a Java text. And the reference in the back is unnecessary even back then because the javadoc was available online.
The inclusion of the reference in the final section is idiotic. That reference is more easily found online and can be kept up to date easily.
I can find no problems with the rest. It does exactly what a nutshell book should do.
I can find no problems with the rest. It does exactly what a nutshell book should do.
A must-read to keep up with the ever growing JDK. The latest (6th) edition addresses Java 7 and 8.
I enjoyed learning more about lambda expressions, NIO, Async I/O and Meta-programming (Classloading and Reflection).
I enjoyed learning more about lambda expressions, NIO, Async I/O and Meta-programming (Classloading and Reflection).
Oct 17, 2011
Knute Snortum
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A good mid-level overview of the Java language. I haven't read the summaries on the core libraries yet, but that would be the only reason to read the reference area. The rest you can get, more updated, off the web.
Good reference but I don't use it so much because most of the time it is more convenient to use the Java API reference on the net.
Sep 04, 2007
Yuki kojima
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learn more java
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this was a text to my first java class, I don't think it's the best book for beginners... it also was not my style of book... but helpful.
Just one of those standard references that I can't really do without. I find myself comning back to it time and time again.
i learnt java from this book , fifth edition..covers main aspects cleverly , i strongly recommend it for beginners
Good book for someone looking for details on Java programming methods. Used as an additional textbook.
Java in a Nutshell (The Java Series) by David Flanagan (1997)
Pretty helpful, but it's been a long time since I programmed.
Too much reference documentation occupying most of the book
How I learned Java - my first language after college.
good Java reference.
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