books about: java     books:       Head First Java, 2nd Edition267 reviews Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates O'Reilly Media, 2005 Best Teaching Style Ever Invented This was my first Head First book that I had bought (around Nov '09), and I have bought 5 more since (to date, May '10). After reading this Head First Java book, I was able to teach myself java within approximately a month. I won't comment on the specific techniques and methods the Head First series implements, but I will tell you what these books do for me: .. I am a VERY visual and global ...             Hadoop: The Definitive Guide10 reviews Tom White O'Reilly Media, 2009 First 25 Pages Have You Up And Running! I picked up this book to catch up on Hadoop, which the rest of my team has been using for several months. Unfortunately I was too busy with other projects to spend any time on MapReduce and thought it'd be a grueling process to be brought up to speed on it. Within the first 25 pages and about 3 hours, Tom had me up and running my first MapReduce job which I successfully adapted for a specific ...             Java Concurrency in Practice68 reviews, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006 Great book! Highly recommended. Before purchasing this book I borrowed it from a friend. Unfortunately he needed it back before I could finish, but it didn't matter because I had already decided it should be part of my Java book collection. It fits right in with my other two favorite Java books, Effective Java and Java Puzzlers. This book does a great job of explaining concurrency in the Java language and the best practices. ...             Pro Android 27 reviews Satya Komatineni, Dave MacLean Apress, 2010 It shouldn't be the only Android book on your shelf, but your collection should not be without it. Pro Android 2 is aimed at developers who want to take Android to the next level. This large book serves as a manual for how to do almost anything on Android. The book starts by giving a refresher of the platform, and then quickly dives into explaining XML files, GUI layout and Views, and working with mapping. Building and consuming services are explained, giving the first example of working ...             ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income74 reviews Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett Wiley, 2010 3 Reasons You Should Buy ProBlogger Millions of blogs exist these days. Even your neighbor's dog, it seems, has a blog. With the enormous popularity of blogging, becoming a professional blogger--someone who earns a substantial amount of income through blogging--is now a reality. Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett offer some advice in their book, ProBlogger, on how to tap into this potential source of income. And there are three primary ...             SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide (Exam 310-065)65 reviews McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008 Great book - Excellent Resource As I'm preparing for my certification, this book has been a valuable resource. Besides being it's original purpose, it's a great reference book when I need to look up something I might have forgotten.             Effective Java46 reviews Prentice Hall, 2008 What??? You haven't read this? This means that: (1) You don't write Java code, in which case you're forgiven. (2) You're about to start reading it, in which case you're also forgiven. (3) The unforgiveable alternative.             JavaScript: The Definitive Guide295 reviews David Flanagan O'Reilly Media, 2006 A dream come true! Explains JavaScript with almost perfect clarity. Great for someone who is painfully confused by JavaScript.             Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours (5th Edition)14 reviews Rogers Cadenhead Sams, 2009 Perfect book for learning the basics of Java I have been a programmer for over 20 years and found myself needing to learn Java. This book allowed me to lay the foundation I need to be a successful Java programmer. Two thumbs up, and if I had more thumbs, they'd all be up as well. This would be a good book even if you don't have any programming background.             Head First Design Patterns294 reviews Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ... O'Reilly Media, 2004 Finally, a Great Book for Object Oriented Design I've been programming for over 20 years, and in the last few years I've been learning Object Oriented programming in Java and .Net. I've read lots of books and articles on how to do object oriented design. If I had to write a business program that needed a Cat object that inherited from from Pet, or a Circle object that inherited from Shape, I'd have been set to go. But until now, I couldn't ...             Linux Administration : A Beginner's Guide, Fifth Edition42 reviews McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008 Just what I needed The book covers a broad range of topics. The book is more than a listing of commands. It offers enough auxiliary information to establish a solid understanding of why and how things work.             Mastering Regular Expressions135 reviews Jeffrey E.F. Friedl O'Reilly Media, 2006 Mastering Regular Expressions is essential reading for anyone in IT I've been using regular expressions (knowingly / intentionally) for the better part of the last 2 decades, and yet until I read this book, I didn't fully realise what a powerful set of tools I had at my disposal. Jeffrey Friedl's explanation of what makes the various types of engines work, and the chapter on optimising regexes for NFAs were extremely helpful. As a network security administrator I ...             Java Web Services: Up and Running15 reviews O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2009 Very good book I did learn a lot which is all that you can ask for. The book is thin - less than 300 pages, and the author writes in a good conversational style. It is a good tutorial but it probably does not make a good reference as it does not go into too much detail in some places. For example it does not explain how to create a handler when it returns a false value (how is the response created?), and a ...             RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide (Exam RH302)50 reviews McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2007 Best practices and growing your career! I think everyone should be required to take & pass the RHCE 'if' you would in a Enterprise environment or in a smaller company. Understanding the fundamentals of an Operating System to the complexity of services that can survive the public Internet or Internal network is key to success. I learned a lot from digging in and I know when I set up servers for work they are correct and done by ...             Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam148 reviews Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, ... O'Reilly Media, 2008 Good book but not complete It is a good book but to get the J2EE 5 Web Component Developer certificate you must use other resources. Nevertheless, I would say that I learned a lot reading this book and it wouldn't be fair to grade it with 4 stars. I recommend this book for people who don't know nothing about web development using Java. However, if you want to be an expert you should read other books for complementing the ...             Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach28 reviews Apress, 2008 Well written, easy to understand Just a short note to say that I was absolutely delighted by how well this book is written. The author seems to truly want to teach, as opposed to wanting to make money. And teach he does, in a very well disciplined approach of describing the fundamentals before proceeding to describe the details. I gained most of my Spring knowledge from this excellent book and heartily recommend it for anyone ...             Core JavaServer(r) Faces37 reviews Prentice Hall, 2007 A good book on the subject. Very easy to read/undersand. Ample cover of the subject. Clear division between the stuff you need to read for understanding, the stuff that you would go back to as a reference, and helpful practical tips. I would have been even happier if the SEAM related chapter would have been more complete - the material there is not really deep or broad enough.             Core Java(TM), Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition)20 reviews Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell Prentice Hall, 2007 Great explanation of Java Programming This book is a great explanation of Java programming if you have had some experience in programming languages (especially C) before. If you like learning from example code this is the book to get as it has lots of relevant example code that is very well commented.             JavaScript, A Beginner's Guide, Third Edition9 reviews McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2009 Finally...a guide for beginners! When I wanted to create my own genealogy website, I learned CSS and HTML from Ian Lloyd's book Build Your Own Web Site. That's a fantastic book for the beginner and when I wanted to learn JavaScript, I bought another book from the same publisher, Sitepoint. Their book, Simply JavaScript (NOT by Ian Lloyd) was a nightmare for me! I wrote the publishers in frustration and they wrote a nice note in ...             Head First JavaScript45 reviews Michael Morrison O'Reilly Media, 2008 Awesome Resource for Visual Learners My only complaint with this item was that it took over three weeks for USPS to ship it to me from three states away. But that's not the fault of the product or the seller. Other than that - this book is excellent for keeping the attention of those of us who don't respond well to "traditional" learning techniques. It is entertaining and by teaching the same concept in multiple ways, I've found ...              search for books administration, approach, beginner, blogging, certified, component, concurrency, definitive, developer, effective, engineer, expressions, fundamentals, javascript, javaserver, mastering, patterns, practice, problem, problem-solution, problogger, programmer, recipes, regular, running, services, servlets, six-figure, solution, yourself books:    randomly chosen pc & video games: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PlayStation 3) home  impressum - about us