Books and PDFs


My reviews of books used while learning beginning coding:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies 3rd Edition by Barry A. Burd (Author). I loved this book. It explained ideas in simple to understand concepts. It gave references to other resources to expand on ideas. All around good book for beginners.


⭐⭐⭐ Head First Java 2nd Edition by Kathy Sierra (Author), Bert Bates (Author)

This book was ok. I like that it was fun and tried to be simple to explain things but I got lost several times. It was my first java book and they kept explaining most all ideas by using an example with a remote control.  I would have rather they just explained the actual technical concept directly. There was a lot of good content and practice exercises so still worth reading.

Free Java pdfs or tutorials:
Think Java - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist 5th Edition 2011
🙂 Free PDF for personal use.

Thinking in Java (3rd edition) Author: Bruce Eckel 2006
🙂Free PDF for personal use.

The Java Language Specification, Java SE 8 Specification 2015
Authors: James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha, and Alex Buckley.
🙂Free PDF for personal use.

The Java Tutorials 2014
Authors: Raymond Gallardo, Scott Hommel, Sowmya Kannan, Joni Gordon, and Sharon Biocca Zakhour.  http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial

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