Name: Java Precisely
ISBN: 9780262693257

Java Precisely

The third edition of Java Precisely provides a concise description of the Java programming language, version 8.0. It offers a quick reference for the reader who has already learned (or is learning) Java from a standard textbook and who wants to know the language in more detail. The book presents the entire Java programming language and essential parts of the class libraries: the collection classes, the input-output classes, the stream libraries and Java 8s facilities for parallel programming, and the functional interfaces used for that. h written informally, the book describes the language in detail and offers many examples. For clarity, most of the general rules appear on left-hand pages with the relevant examples directly opposite on the right-hand pages. All examples are fragments of legal Java programs. The complete ready-to-run example programs are available on the books website. This third edition adds material about functional parallel processing of arrays; default and static methods on interfaces; a brief description of the memory model and visibility across concurrent threads; lambda expressions, method reference expressions, and the related functional interfaces; and stream processing, including parallel programming and collectors. -- Provided by publisher.

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pk137Feb 2012

Java Precisely (Sestoft) gives you the crispiest syntax. Effective Java (Bloch) gives the best practices. Core Java (vol 1, 8th ed) gives you a pro-C++, no-nonsense comprehensive coverage. Official Java Tutorial is the best intro, save it's not a book!

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bretthoernerDec 2008

I'm kinda doing the same thing but from Python. I really liked Java Precisely http://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/javaprecisely/

It doesn't try to teach you programming, it just cuts to this "this is what this is in Java" ... high signal/noise.

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PamarApr 2017

This is a really interesting question - the main problem with identifying a single book is that while Java core syntax is relatively terse (you can for example check out Precisely Java for an example: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20110810052030/http://www.d...) the language delivers only through massive usage of the standard libraries. And this really makes it a completely different beast from C - a gap that kept growing at each subsequent version of Java (you may notice that Java Precisely hasn't been updated after Java 5, btw).

Personally if I had to get back into Java today I would start by exploring Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach by Robert Sedgewick & Kevin Wayne. The 2nd Edition has just been published (early April 2017) - but take in account that I am suggesting this basing myself exclusively on the reputation of the authors, and I haven't read it.

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