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Well-grounded? You mean, “well-rounded”? Two years of pandemic would do that without the need for a book.
Merriam-Webster defines well-grounded as “having a firm foundation.” I like that. We want to have a firm foundation in Java—a practical knowledge of what we need to know to call ourselves Java experts. This book picks up where Effective Java stops.
This is the second edition of a great book. The first taught us all that we needed to know for Java 7. That seems like eons ago. Java 7 belonged to another age, when features were added to the language at best every three years. Back then, it was easy to keep versions apart. Java 5? Generics and enums. Java 7? try-with-resource. Java 8? Streams and lambdas. Those comfortable ...
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