Tiran Behrouz said
This book reveals the true meaning its title "Java precisely". I wish all authors could learn from the beauty and teaching methodology of this book. Everything is explained with sheer simplicity, without making matters more complicated than they should be. It is very concise and to the point, without any unnecessary waste of paper. So many computer books are becoming bloated and heavy without offering any substance. As one of the other reviewers mentioned, this book reminded me of the K&R book of C. I can't wait to see more "Precisely" titles.
Billy Blaze said
If your Java is dated (I left around 1.2 and am now returning) or you know another OOP language and wish to get to the meat of the matter in short order, this is the book you need. As of this writing they're asking twenty bucks, which in my estimation gives it an extremely high bang for the buck. Programming neophytes may have issues with this book, however.
I want to see more brief and concise books like this (and indeed the author has done a C# version) on various computing topics. Does anybody really *read* the thousand page tomes that are out there nowadays? Folks, life is too short to waste on extraneous information.
Fernando Sotomayor said
This is a very small book, but complete. These two characteristics allow you to find very quickly the precise and complete information you are looking for. Nevertheless, the book is not for learning Java from start; instead, it is to be used as reference by people who already has a general knowledge of the language.
I am ordering a new copy because I lost my first one.
Ting QIAN said
This book is a quick reference for most questions in Java usage. What I find particularly useful is the section on Java Collection and generics. A great work overall.
B. Knight said
... and boiled it till only the essentials remained, this is what you'd get. There is no other book as concise and yet as complete. The 2nd edition covers Java 1.5 which addresses the concerns of some other reviewers that it might be outdated. Another reviewer compared it to K&R, which is a good comparison. You could very nearly write a Java compiler based on this book. Companion books include the "Java Language Specification" (Gosling, et. al.), and "Java Rules" (Dunn).
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