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A few days ago I received my copy of Head First Java by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. I'm only part way through the book, but what's amazed me is that even in my sleep-deprived state that first evening, I found myself thinking, "OK, just one more page, then I'll go to bed." That went on for the first 25 pages, even though I had been reading a couple of chapters each night from the new Harry Potter book for my brain candy. When the day has come that a book about a programming language qualifies as "brain candy", something truly different has happened.

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