Thinking In Java 3rd Edition Available Online

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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Bruce Eckel is one of the sexiest men around!

[callipygian-showsyst]

Bruce Eckel is one of the sexiest men around. I still can remember the day when that issue of Unix Review arrived and all the ladies at the office melted. (And some men, too, I found a thread about Bruce Eckel in soc.motss after a google search.)

I must say, I don't care for the new, beardless look. (Well, not completely beardless, but close. Maybe he's just getting older, too. There's a lot of grey in his hair now.

Anyway, back to Java: I'm disappointed that Bruce Eckel has "sold out" and switched from being a C++ guru to a Java guru. We all know that Java has lowered the standards for Computer Scientists, and has crippled many a new college grad who doesn't know what a pointer is! Also Java has a bad reputation, thanks to people like Patrick Naughton, a co-inventor of Java who used it to search for child pornography on the Internet.