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[Barry Hawkins]

I own 3 of those 4 books and highly recommend them.  Low ceremony,  
high value.  Haven't seen the Agile Java one, sounds like one to check  
out.

Barry

On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Wilson, Jeff wrote:

> Each of these books are good intros to Java and OO programming.  
> Several of them also deal with good coding practices.
>
> Agile Java, Jeff Langr
> Thinking in Java, Bruce Eckel.
> Head First Java,  Kathy Sierra
>
> This book is good because it teaches you common pitfalls in using  
> Java, and how to avoid them.
>
> Effective Java, Joshua Bloch
>
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> Hye there , can some one give me a list of good books on good java  
> coding practices, Probably I should ask good OOAD coding practices.  
> Iam looking for a book which has  OOAD priciples , practices ,  
> patterns , and good coding practices.
> Thanks!!!
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> Experienced programmers: Is java difficult to people who have  
> programmed for 5+ years with some sort of procedural-language and  
> then move to java?
> In 2000, I moved from a C/assembly job to a Java position (having  
> never written a line of Java) and had no trouble making the  
> transition.  I feel that most of the knowledge that took me from my  
> early level of "competent" to "good" (which probably took a couple  
> of years) didn't actually have much to do with Java syntax.  In the  
> beginning, you can always google whatever you're trying to do (i.e.  
> "java sort"), so memorizing the libraries isn't something I'd worry  
> about.  Honestly, there's just too much out there to remember it  
> all.  In addition to the stuff that comes with the JDK, you'll use  
> many open source utilities like Apache Commons in real world Java  
> apps.  Just write as much Java code as you can and you'll eventually  
> memorize the things that you commonly use.
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> If you want to become a truly useful Java developer, I'd recommend  
> learning the basics of OO and JUnit (unit testing), getting  
> comfortable with a good IDE (I use Eclipse), and focusing on writing  
> human-readable code.  That's going to put you ahead of the majority  
> of people with whom I've ever worked.  There are plenty of good  
> books out there, but I found Robert Martin's /Agile Software  
> Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices/ really made a lot  
> of sense to me WRT some of the non-syntaxy stuff that I'm talking  
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