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Originally Posted by sakura_fujin View Post
I've been using Java: How to Program 6th edition by Deitel and Deitel for a year now and it really helped me a lot through my computer science subjects. There are currently newer editions of this book though, you might want to browse for it. ^^
I found 6th edition helpful, however I seen the 7th edition and I have to say they did not do a good job on this one. Sale point for them been AJAX, Java DB/Apache Derby and MySQL that they did not prepar properly and if you wish to learn these technologies you better of to find some other resources (MySQL chapters are actually better in 6th edition)
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Originally Posted by jwenting View Post
nope, that's one of the worst books you could get.
Anything by Herb is suspicious by default, especially anything by Herb that's not dealing with C.
java 2 complete reference by herbert schildt is realy badly writen but to my suprice his Swing A beginner's Guide is quite helpful and on top of that all his examples actually works as you re-type them from book
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Re: Any books a beginner should get?

 
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Herb's books are littered with mistakes both small and large.
His examples may compile but his advise is often very bad, bad to the point of being utterly in contradiction with best practice and sometimes flatly contradicting the language specification.
As people are clearly allowed to attack me but I'm not allowed to defend myself, I no longer post to this site.
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