Java Programming Book - Oracle Press Official Guide | Learn Java Coding for Beginners & Professionals | Perfect for Software Development & Computer Science Studies

Not having done any serious programming since I left college in the late 90s and programmed in C++. I wanted to knock the rust off and get back into the swing of things. This book was perfect. I am beyond most beginner books on the market, but below the cut for advanced books. I hard niche to fill for sure, but this book is a no nonsense, get to work type of book. All examples work perfectly and each chapter builds on the last in a logical and predictable way. The examples are meant to be used in a text editor, but I have been using NetBeans and I have not only got a better grasp on Java, but a better understanding of the IDE as well.Beginners will get a lot of good use out of this book if they download the first three chapters which are omitted from the print and study them with other, freely available, beginner material. I had the basics of programming, OO flow and logic down, so I was looking for syntax and the "Java" way of doing things, which this book provided in spades. I am not finished with the book; I'm a little over half way done, but I am looking forward to the coming chapters on threads and GUI programming. I would certainly recommend this book to folks like me, who programmed in the past and want to learn the Java syntax or programmers coming from another language. Great book.