Effective Java Programming Language Guide

The Java(TM) Developers Almanac 1.4, Volume 1: Examples and Quick Reference (4th Edition)

Head First Design Patterns

Javabeans

The Java(TM) Class Libraries, Volume 2: java.applet, java.awt, java.beans (2nd Edition)

Format: Paperback
Author: Patrick Chan
ReleaseDate: 21 October, 1997
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:

A must have book for the beginner
st sentence of the preface says: "This book is intended as a reference rather than a tutorial". The 1. Well for an experienced Java programmer this is certainly true, but for a novice who has just grasped the fundamentals of the language and starts to write down his first lines of code this book is an excellent tutorial. Every class has a description and practically every method of every class has its example code where nearly every line is documented, with links to related methods. Looking into these examples one can quickly learn tips and tricks smoothing the learning curve a lot. The Chan's book is miles ahead, in my opinion, the unuseful example codes one can freely download from the Sun's internet pages, full of magic words comining from blue skyes not documented at all, where one has to figure out what any of them is useful for and where you are on your own. One more time: what I say is true for a novice; the senior Java programmer may feel at his ease with the API's documentation of the Sun's JDK.
My last warning: since in Java things change often this kind of books goes into obsolescence quicky. For instance: my copy is the 5th edition (October 2001) and it lacks completely the new Collections class framework.

Great reference!
io, java. This book really helps with a huge amount of information and examples for all of the classes in java.lang, java. math, java. text, and java. util. Wonderful reference book!.

Gotta have it
It contains an enormous amount of useful information, examples, etc. If your a Java 2 developer then you need this on your bookshelf. for all the classes in java. applet, java. awt, and java. beans. You gotta have it!.