Thinking in Java

Thinking in JavaFree download Thinking in Java (Fourth Edition) in PDF written by Bruce Eckel and published by President, MindView, Inc.

According to the Author, “I originally approached Java as “just another programming language,” which in many senses it is.
But as time passed and I studied it more deeply, I began to see that the fundamental intent of this language was different from other languages I had seen up to that point.
Programming is about managing complexity: the complexity of the problem you want to solve, laid upon the complexity of the machine in which it is solved. Because of this complexity, most of our programming projects fail. And yet, of all the programming languages of which I am aware, almost none have gone all out and decided that their main design goal would be to conquer the complexity of developing and maintaining programs.

Of course, many language design decisions were made with complexity in mind, but at some point there were always other issues that were considered essential to be added into the mix. Inevitably, those other issues are what cause programmers to eventually “hit the wall” with that language. For example, C++ had to be backwards-compatible with C (to allow easy migration for C programmers), as well as efficient. Those are both very useful goals and account for much of the success of C++, but they also expose extra complexity that prevents some projects from being finished (certainly, you can blame programmers and management, but if a language can help by catching your mistakes, why shouldn’t it?).

As another example, Visual BASIC (VB) was tied to BASIC, which wasn’t really designed to be an extensible language, so all the extensions piled upon VB have produced some truly unmaintainable syntax. Perl is backwards-compatible with awk, sed, grep, and other Unix tools it was meant to replace, and as a result it is often accused of producing “write-only code” (that is, after a while you can’t read it). On the other hand, C++, VB, Perl, and other languages like Smalltalk had some of their design efforts focused on the issue of complexity and as a result are remarkably successful in solving certain types of problems.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Introduction to Objects
  3. Everything is an Object
  4. Operators
  5. Controlling Execution
  6. Initialization & Cleanup
  7. Access Control
  8. Reusing Classes
  9. Polymorphism
  10. Interfaces
  11. Inner Classes
  12. Holding your Objects
  13. Error Handling with Exceptions
  14. Strings
  15. Type Information
  16. Generics
  17. Arrays
  18. Containers in Depth
  19. I/O
  20. Enumerated Types
  21. Annotations
  22. Concurrency
  23. Graphical User Interfaces
  24. Index

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