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Java By Comparison
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Java By Comparison

by Simon Harrer, Linus Dietz, Jörg Lenhard
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 52m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Get Ready for Your Mission to Mars

As a beginner or intermediate programmer, getting a sense for good and clean code that others will recognize as such might appear to you as something far, far away, a goal almost unreachable—a long journey, full of unexpected problems and unknown experiences. It’s a bit like traveling through space to a destination that humanity hasn’t reached yet: a journey to Mars! That was sort of how we felt when we started to learn programming many years ago.

We’ve written the code in this book with the theme of a Mars mission, so all the code examples have something spacey about them. But the real reason is that we don’t want to distract you from the problem in a code snippet with the setting that the code is in. We used ...

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