Currently learning Java by-the-book from “Starting Out With Java: From Control Structures Through Data Structures” second edition. It’s a remarkable book, unlike any of the ones I tried reading before. It explains every minutiae of the example code and leaves very little to the imagination, except for when it has the courtesy to explicitly tell the reader to ignore it for the time being, something that a lot of guides fail to do. This somewhat pads the book out when it explains when a method-call has occurred two chapters after method-calls were explained (it’s 1300 pages long), but the reinforcement is greatly appreciated and I actually saved time by not fumbling around wondering how the heck dealershipOne.getCar(“Pinto”).setYear(dealershipOne.getPolicy().getYear()) worked, even though I technically knew how argument passing and dot operators worked. The pages on which the exercises are printed are even differently coloured from the rest of the book, its structure apparent at the cosmetic level.
I’ve decided to accumulate the knowledge from to back, because I find I’m too fidgety and impatient when I try to pick and choose chapters, and have gotten through about 50 pages in the last 3 days. I’d recommend it for the textbook thread, but I found other textbooks too unbearable to read past the first chapter , so I’m not technically qualified.
Currently learning Java by-the-book from “Starting Out With Java: From Control Structures Through Data Structures” second edition. It’s a remarkable book, unlike any of the ones I tried reading before. It explains every minutiae of the example code and leaves very little to the imagination, except for when it has the courtesy to explicitly tell the reader to ignore it for the time being, something that a lot of guides fail to do. This somewhat pads the book out when it explains when a method-call has occurred two chapters after method-calls were explained (it’s 1300 pages long), but the reinforcement is greatly appreciated and I actually saved time by not fumbling around wondering how the heck dealershipOne.getCar(“Pinto”).setYear(dealershipOne.getPolicy().getYear()) worked, even though I technically knew how argument passing and dot operators worked. The pages on which the exercises are printed are even differently coloured from the rest of the book, its structure apparent at the cosmetic level.
I’ve decided to accumulate the knowledge from to back, because I find I’m too fidgety and impatient when I try to pick and choose chapters, and have gotten through about 50 pages in the last 3 days. I’d recommend it for the textbook thread, but I found other textbooks too unbearable to read past the first chapter , so I’m not technically qualified.