Jesper de Jong wrote:I have a Java book at home from 1997 or so, which has a big star on the front with "Covers version 1.0!".
But I didn't remember that the API was so small. The book is one and a half inch thick.
"Covers Version 1.0" was a big selling point, because the first few Java books covered the pre-1.0 alpha API which had a completely different
applet package. Since early Java teaching used applets to demonstrate
everything, that meant that those first few books were completely useless if you had the actual release version of the JDK.