A book you will use throughout your career

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Book:		Java in a Nutshell
Subject:		A book you will use throughout your career
Date:		2007-02-15 09:30:49
From:		Matthew Mark Miller

Rating: I disagree that this book is "not good for beginners." This is the book I learned Java from. The first few hundred pages constitute a condensed but never diluted tutorial with short and to the point examples on how to do everything in the language. There's no dalliance on minor points, no exercises, no workbook -- just the facts you need to get started WORKING with Java. For a while there wasn't a day when I didn't rely on this book to fill in when my knowledge was lacking. Even now, as a certified developer in his eighth year working with this stuff, there are times when I grab for the book to get an overview over some relatively obscure API or language feature. This is not a deep book. It does not proffer information that you can't get from other places. The API documentation is no replacement for a link to the platform API nor the tutorial a replacement for the language spec. Regardless, this book organizes essential information in an eminently usable way, and for that I give it highest marks. And then I'm buying yet another copy.