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title = "Learning Java - Patrick Niemeyer"
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date = 2018-08-03
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "patrick niemeyer", "reviews", "java", "it", "2 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/665984.Learning_Java):
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Version 5.0 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK is the most important upgrade
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since Java first appeared a decade ago. With Java 5.0, you'll not only find
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substantial changes in the platform, but to the language itself-something that
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developers of Java took five years to complete. The main goal of Java 5.0 is
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to make it easier for you to develop safe, powerful code, but none of these
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improvements makes Java any easier to learn, even if you've programmed with
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Java for years. And that means our bestselling hands-on tutorial takes on even
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greater significance."Learning Java" is the most widely sought introduction to
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the programming language that's changed the way we think about computing. Our
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updated third edition takes an objective, no-nonsense approach to the new
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features in Java 5.0, some of which are drastically different from the way
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things were done in any previous versions. The most essential change is the
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addition of "generics," a feature that allows developers to write, test, and
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deploy code once, and then reuse the code again and again for different data
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types. The beauty of generics is that more problems will be caught during
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development, and "Learning Java" will show you exactly how it's done.Java 5.0
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also adds more than 1,000 new classes to the Java library. That means 1,000
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new things you can do without having to program it in yourself. That's a huge
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change. With our book's practical examples, you'll come up to speed quickly on
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this and other new features such as loops and threads. The new edition also
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includes an introduction to Eclipse, the open source IDE that is growing in
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popularity. "Learning Java," 3rd Edition addresses all of the important uses
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of Java, such as web applications, servlets, and XML that are increasingly
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driving enterprise applications.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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I once said that it's not just the matter of wanting to learn something, there
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is also the matter of wanting to *teach*.
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The problem here is that the book doesn't seem interested in the second.
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I mean, sure, it's nice that you go through *all* the classes, but... is it
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necessary? Is this teaching? Not to me.
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Either focus on how things work and how to pick things, but going over and
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over and over over *everything* is tiring and not helpful. Not to mention
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there is a lot of things said twice (or even more), which seems focused on
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making the book bigger, instead of making things clearer.
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