java books

[Tuurbo46]

Hi
I have just started my final year as an undergraduate and im currently
struggling on our core Java programming module. Please could somebody
advice me on a good book/ URL that has lots of examples and covers vectors,
hashsets, hashtables etc.....

Thanks Turbo

 

[Ajay]

http://www.codeguru.com/java/tij/
This is a free book which was of help when I started learning java...

But I would strongly recommend the official
java programming language third edition.. Its verbose but explicit and
easy to read..

 

[Ajay]

http://javaalmanac.com/
This is a good source for examples.

 

[Tuurbo46]

thanks Ajay

 

[TechBookReport]

Hi
I have just started my final year as an undergraduate and im currently
struggling on our core Java programming module. Please could somebody
advice me on a good book/ URL that has lots of examples and covers vectors,
hashsets, hashtables etc.....

Thanks Turbo

Take a look at the recommendations on
http://www.techbookreport.com/JavaIndex.html.

Most of the recommended titles cover the Java collections. If you're
interested in the underlying algorithms of vecrtors, hash tables and so on,
(rather than in how to use them), then take a look at something like 'Data
Structures With Java' (http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0056.html).

 

[zero]

Take a look at the recommendations on
http://www.techbookreport.com/JavaIndex.html.

that list seems a bit outdated

 

[TechBookReport]

that list seems a bit outdated

If you look at the list of reviews you'll see that there are lots of new
titles being reviewed. However, the list of recommendations includes the
books that are considered the best rather than the most recent.

What titles would you recommend?

 

[zero]

If you look at the list of reviews you'll see that there are lots of new
titles being reviewed. However, the list of recommendations includes the
books that are considered the best rather than the most recent.

What titles would you recommend?

Well the one that caught my eye was Java How To Program by Deitel. An
excellent book that will bring an absolute beginner into the OO and Java
world. But this site mentions the 5th edition, which covers Java 1.4.2.
To learn Java 1.5, you need the 6th edition, which has been available for
several months now.

The same with Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2, the site mentions the SDK
1.4.2 edition. I think 1.5 has enough new features to warrant a review of
the new edition.

That being said, the list does give some good reviews, and I'm sure any
smart reader will find the new editions and understand that, if the
previous edition was good, the new one can't be all bad.