tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post371855921773050561..comments2024-01-15T00:07:32.472-08:00Comments on Mars and Me: Spirit Sol 45Scott Maxwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11510688120932625522noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-21996845298326080082009-02-21T12:34:00.000-08:002009-02-21T12:34:00.000-08:00@changcho Well, if any publishers out there agree ...@changcho Well, if any publishers out there agree with you, then maybe that'll happen. :-)<BR/><BR/>@Anonymous For a general introduction to Java: "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel. I don't agree with all of his views -- in particular, I'm a *big* proponent of strong static typing, and he's not -- but it's still the first book I'd recommend to any programmer who wants to learn Java.<BR/><BR/>The other books I recommended were "Core Java Foundation Classes" and "Core Swing Advanced Programming," both by Kim Topley. These books have saved me many hours of agony; I highly recommend them to anyone who's writing user interfaces in Swing. I'd already been doing that for a while before these books came out, so I'm not sure whether or not they're good books for *learning* Swing, but they've been very useful to me as I try to puzzle out how to do various nontrivial things.<BR/><BR/>Out of curiosity, are there any good Java books y'all recommend? I've been generally unimpressed with what's available, but I'd welcome a pleasant surprise.Scott Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11510688120932625522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-49351905404266130622009-02-19T00:01:00.000-08:002009-02-19T00:01:00.000-08:00Which programming books did you recommend?Which programming books did you recommend?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557240086320000561.post-87731648507074468782009-02-18T12:42:00.000-08:002009-02-18T12:42:00.000-08:00You know you've got to compile all this into book ...You know you've got to compile all this into book form, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com