Hello Mr. Subramaniam,
I'd like to get the most out of your book and am excited to see it is a part of the Pragmatic imprint series.
You say your book is for "programmers well-versed in object oriented programming in
Java and keen to learn and apply the new facilities of lambda expressions."
Am I ready to read your book? As a beginner I do not yet know how to judge how close I come to the mark you set. I have a beginning knowledge of design
patterns by reading
Alan Shalloway's
Design Patterns Explained and have worked on one major project since graduating college. In that project I used lambda expressions with collections after I saw your lecture at SpringOne 2GX. I like the idea of lambdas and am still puzzled as to what their potential power is.
However, I don't want to jump into the book prematurely and be in over my head. What do you define as "well-versed in object oriented programming?"