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Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online

Posted by timothy on from the free-books dept.

slothdog writes "Bruce Eckel has made the new 3rd edition of Thinking in Java (and other books) available online. This is a more introductory-level book, although there is a work in progress on Thinking in Patterns and one on the way entitled Thinking in Enterprise Java. All in all, an excellent book for someone not yet familiar with Java. Kudos to Bruce for making it available for download!"

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  1. Re:SWT? by FattMattP · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Yay! SWT got a footnote! It's a start. Too bad the author is a Java purist who assumes Swing is the only way to build GUIs in Java.
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but SWT isn't part of Java; It's an add on from IBM. Bruce Eckel's book is to teach you the Java language as it comes from Sun.
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  2. Re:Thinking in C#? by alyandon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Contrary to popular belief, C# is not a straight clone of Java although the syntax of the language is very similar.

    Translating a book about Java development concepts w/examples to C# makes about as much sense translating a book about Objective C to C++. You really aren't going to pick up on any of the special features/nuances of the language.