[ajug-members] cert.

[Wilson, Jeff]

The nice thing about Agile Java is that it teaches Java and OO with
JUnit testing and TDD as a basic skill from day one.

+jeff (MJW)
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"To express yourself / In seventeen syllables / Is very diffic".
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M. Jeff Wilson, Lead Member Technical Staff
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Operations & Service Dev
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Hawkins [mailto:barry at alltc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:45 AM
> To: ajug-members at ajug.org
> Subject: Re: [ajug-members] cert.
> 
> 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
> >
> > +jeff (MJW)
> > ---
> > "To express yourself / In seventeen syllables / Is very diffic".
> > [In an item about haiku in the _Daily Telegraph_, Nov. 1998.]
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > M. Jeff Wilson, Lead Member Technical Staff
> > AT&T Services, Inc.
> > Operations & Service Dev
> > jw9615 at att.com
> > +1 404.499.7235
> > From: Rajesha.Indurthivenkata at equifax.com
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> > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:02 PM
> > To: ajug-members at ajug.org
> > Subject: Re: [ajug-members] cert.
> >
> >
> > 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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> > "Alan Honeycutt" <alan.n.honeycutt at gmail.com>
> > 07/23/2008 03:27 PM
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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.
> >
> > 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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