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Are the Java SE 5 Tutorials still online at Sun's website?
Originally posted by Campbell Ritchie:
I think the Java Tutorial has Console in as well, which is Java 6 specific, but there have been no changes to grammar or syntax between Java 5 and Java 6. If you get the Deitel book with the picture of a horse on the cover (7/e) or the ant leaping out of bed (6/e) they will cover all the latest syntax, although some of the newer classes will be missing. If you have the Deitel book with the ants building an arch on the cover, that only covers Java 1.4 and I regard that book as out of date.
The Java tutorial is one of the most comprehensive sources of Java code examples available anywhere; it is just a shame that they put everything into the main method so you never see objects instantiated, nor method calls on those objects, in the Java Tutorial. As Ulf Dittmer says, there is only one edition of the Java Tutorial available; why go for an old edition anyway? Yes, the Deitel books do have lots of examples; there are both worked examples in the text and lots of questions like
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Originally posted by Campbell Ritchie:
Defeat the object of OO programming? If you mean putting everything in the main method is not OO programming, then I agree with you. You can always copy the code into a proper OO framework.
And as Jinny Morris found out, programming does require a lot of work.
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