June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
21h 1m
English
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
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There is a lot of useful information packed into this book. However, due to the breadth of topics, it is not possible to give book-length treatment to any one topic. Because of this, the book also contains references to many web sites and other books. This is in keeping with my target audience: the person who wants to learn more about Java.
O’Reilly & Associates publishes one of the largest -- and, I think, the best -- selection of Java books on the market. As the API continues to expand, so does the coverage. You can find the latest versions and ordering information on O’Reilly’s Java books in the back pages of this book or online at http://java.oreilly.com, and you can buy them at most bookstores, both physical and virtual. You can also read them online through a paid subscription service; see http://safari.oreilly.com. While many are mentioned at appropriate spots in the book, a few deserve special mention here.
First and foremost, David Flanagan’s Java in a Nutshell offers a brief overview of the language and API, and a detailed reference to the most essential packages. This is handy to keep beside your computer.
Learning Java, by Patrick Niemeyer and Joshua Peck, contains a slightly more leisurely introduction to the language and the APIs.
A definitive (and monumental) description of programming the Swing GUI is Java Swing, by Robert Eckstein, Marc Loy, and Dave Wood.
Java Servlets, by Jason Hunter, and JavaServer Pages, by Hans Bergsten, are both ideal for the ...
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