Must read for Java Developers | Effective Java: Programming Language Guide (Java Series)

Would You Like Milk with That? | Effective Java: Programming Language Guide (Java Series) | Joshua Bloch

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	• Effective Java: Programming Language Guide (Java Series) Joshua Bloch Addison-Wesley, 2001 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 120 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Almost good... but not quite

This book continues the style established by Scott Meyers in his Effective C++. When I read Effective C++, I stopped every few pages to go away and modify my existing code in light of his suggestions, and was stimulated to improve my coding style in the long term. I hoped for the same from Effective Java. While it's a good book, it doesn't have the same impact. The articles are too long and detailed, and have more than I wanted to know about the reasoning behind the design of Java and its libraries (Bloch was an insider to the process). The articles tend to be prescriptive rather than persuasive. While Meyers won me over by allowing me to sleep more soundly in the knowledge that my code was safe and stable, Bloch leaves me feeling that I'm a bad person if I don't do it his way.

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Must read for Java Developers

there is a huge difference between just writing code that compiles and run and writing code that is robust, extensible, maintainable and readable. the latter took a lot more effort and a *whole* lot of experience. but dont worry, the author has acquired the experience for you, now all we have to do is to read it!

Would You Like Milk with That?

For years it was said that the road to modern riches lay in a mastery of Java. This once inspired me to contact the Starbucks Corporation about acquiring a franchise with the remaining wisps in our trust fund (true story: an ill-starred thrice-great grandfather of mine set sail for Santiago in 1849, having misheard the talk about gold in San Francisco. This sort of thing runs in families). The chatter was of course about computers, not coffee, and years later I finally acted on this revised intelligence and sat down before my PC with this outstanding manual, determined to learn the new language of commerce. Bloch presents an admirably detailed and robustly structured survey of the elements of Java programming (named, I believe, for the Indonesian island upon which it was created). He takes the young cadet by the chin and methodically drills him through the paces. By lunchtime of the first day I felt like a union shop steward, having learned to "enforce noninstantiability with a private constructor" (chapter 2, page 12). By evening I was high-end a country club bouncer, having learned to "minimize the accessibility of classes and members" (Chapter 4, page 59). But by the time I got to the section on "returning zero-length arrays, not nulls" I was out of metaphors and completely over my head in this black new art. For weeks I felt inept and hopelessly outmoded, until one day I had the good fortune of hailing a taxicab whose driver was the author of one of this book's rivals. It was then that I realized that the bubble had truly burst, and that I hadn't missed out on anything after all. I tipped him handsomely.

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Amazing book!!!

Here it's a book that should always be near from you. The tips and warrings about finally blocks and serialization are precious! In my opinion it's a great book to Developer exam from Sun too!

Nuggets of wisdom

This book is a collection of nuggets of wisdom. They can actually be read in any order but they do make a lot of sense end-to-end. The author really knows his stuff; he demonstrates his mastery of the Java language and depth of understanding of programming in general on every page. I would recommend that any Java programmer buy this book and *read it* thoroughly. It will change the way you program. Remember God is in the details: the things that separate good code from bad code are very subtle, but you need to know them or you'll be just another contributor to the vast sea of garbage code out there.

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