Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases
by Joshua Bloch / Neal Gafter Bloch / Gafter
appears in Programming, Technology, and Nonfiction.
"Every Programming, language has its quirks. This lively book reveals oddities of the Java Programming, language through entertaining and thoughtprovoking Programming, puzzles."Guy Steele, Sun Fellow and coauthor of The Java(TM) Language Specification"I laughed, I cried, I threw up (my hands in admiration)."Tim Peierls, president, Prior Artisans ...
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Consider Core Java Volume IFundamentals by Cay S. Horstmann.
“Reading feels methodical and detail-first: chapters cover syntax, the standard library, and SE 9–11 changes with careful, code-centered examples that assume prior programming fluency. The best parts are clear explanations of tricky corners (generics, concurrency, module-related adjustments) and compact sample code you can adapt. The book's limiting side is its manual-like stretches—long reference passages and few guided, end-to-end projects—so people who learn by building may find momentum stalls.”
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