[android-developers] Re: Java book (like C K&R and C++ Programming Language)

All the books 'fadden' recommends are quite good. Eckel even makes
earlier editions of his book available for free online.

But there is one more book that I think seriously deserves mention
here, even though none of these is a "Java equivalent for K&R (there
isn't one)": that is O'Reilly Press's Head First series book on it,
http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208. This
whole series is the only technical series to take advantage of the
best and latest results in cognitive science to present the material
in such a way that it is efficiently and effectively absorbed by the
reader.

On Jun 10, 1:07 pm, fadden <fad...@android.com> wrote:
> On Jun 8, 6:55 am, luciofm <luci...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a C and C++ background and i'm looking for "THE" java book, like the
> > "C Programming Language, best know as K&R, for C and the "C++ Programming
> > Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup for C++.
>
> If you're looking for reference material, _The Java Language
> Specification_ and _The Java Programming Language_ (published by Sun
> through Addison-Wesley) are the canonical references.
>
> Bruce Eckel's _Thinking in Java_ is better for "everyday" sorts of
> things.  And no Java coding library is complete without Josh Bloch's
> _Effective Java_.

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