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Core Java 2, Volume I--Fundamentals
Book Description Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of Generic programming, restrictions and limitations, type bounds, wilcard types, and generic reflection Swing GUI development, including input validation and other enhancements Exception handling and debugging, including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging Streams and files, the new I/O API, memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders Regular expressions using the powerful java.util.regex package Inner classes, reflection, and dynamic proxies Application packaging and the Preferences API The seventh edition of Core Java- 2, Volume I, covers the fundamentals of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE-). A no-nonsense tutorial and reliable reference, this book features thoroughly tested real-world examples. The most important language and library features are demonstrated with deliberately simple sample programs, but they aren't fake and they don't cut corners. More importantly, all of the programs have been updated for J2SE 5.0 and should make good starting points for your own code. You won't find any toy examples here. This is a book for programmers who want to write real code to solve real problems. Cay S. Horstmann is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University. Previously he was vice president and chief technology officer of Preview Systems Inc. and a consultant on C++, Java, and Internet programming for major corporations, universities, and organizations. Gary Cornell has written or cowritten more than twenty popular computer books. He has a Ph.D. from Brown University and has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Laboratories, as well as a professor at the University of Connecticut.
762 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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November 5, 2012
As a beginner to Java 4 years back, this was my first book and my learning experience was wonderful
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August 29, 2019Questo consistente manuale di Java in due volumi è estremamente interessante e utile per chi un pochetto già ne capisce di programmazione.
September 20, 2008
This book goes into a good amount of detail about most topics it covers. It does however spend less time than I would have liked on things like generics. Overall, it is probably the best non-single-topic-specific Java series book I have read.
August 5, 2007
this is very nice book
July 28, 2024
See Core Java 2 Volume II Advanced Features
February 17, 2010
Great textbook used for Java
April 22, 2013
Leitura não indicada para iniciantes, mas de bom conteúdo e explicação.
December 22, 2018
My first English book, luckily a good one.
May 7, 2014
Just what i wanted
October 28, 2008
Great and well explained introductory tutorial to J2SE programming
August 11, 2011
Nice books, cover almost all aspect of Java Programming.
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