[_] Java
Tim Beadle
tim.beadle at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 15:21:15 BST 2006
On 10/10/06, stefan burt <one.green.squirrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm learning java and was wondering what books you java peps would recommend?
> I'm a bit of a newbie at the mo but I'm following a sun certified java
> course leading up to the exam so I do have a course book but sometime
> it would nice to read all about a topic in a form thats more geek and
> less didactic
I haven't read it, but the Head First Java book [0] is (co-) authored
by Kathy Sierra, who writes an excellent blog [1]. If the book's as
good as the blog (and I've heard that it is), then w00t.
Tim
[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208/
[1] http://headrush.typepad.com/
> I'm learning java and was wondering what books you java peps would recommend?
> I'm a bit of a newbie at the mo but I'm following a sun certified java
> course leading up to the exam so I do have a course book but sometime
> it would nice to read all about a topic in a form thats more geek and
> less didactic
I haven't read it, but the Head First Java book [0] is (co-) authored
by Kathy Sierra, who writes an excellent blog [1]. If the book's as
good as the blog (and I've heard that it is), then w00t.
Tim
[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208/
[1] http://headrush.typepad.com/