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It's not for someone who has never programmed before and he does mention the occaisional C/C++ thing (pointers, class and method creation) that can throw someone who is a complete newcomer but this book isn't for them in any case.

I would just like to thank the authors. Today I needed some IO code and voila, 5 minutes of reading and I was on my way. that is what is so brilliant about this book: it points you in the right direction without fuss or boredom.

To the guy further down who posted about test.class and test$.class etc. This is mentioned in the book. It's what the compiler does to get around some paradoxes with inner classes and is mentioned in the discusion on that topic.