* Welcome Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates & Trisha Gee

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This week, we're delighted to have Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates & Trisha Gee helping to answer questions about the new book Head First Java.
See the table of contents online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 and will end on Friday, July 22nd, 2022

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, O'Reilly.


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[Ansuman roy]

Welcome Kathy, Bert and Trisha. I love head first Java and this book revolutionised the way I understood technology.

Thanks to your book (1st edition, 2003) I just not learnt but understood writing Java. Please keep the good work flowing guys:), can’t wait to read this one.

-Abhishek Roy

[Anantha Ramu]

Hello,

Thanks for publishing the book. Head First edition helped me to ace interviews as I can remember and recall concepts easily.
Does this book cover Records, Modules, JLink, and JPackage?
Also, I do not foresee Java dying in the next 10 years as it has community support, a good amount of releases, high performance, and a wide range of libraries. It lags only in the data analytics field. It also lags a little in being developer-friendly (compared to python/Jupyter). The gap is closing with JShell and functional programming. Am I right in my assessment?

[Balasubba Raman Guruswamy]

Welcome Kathy, Bert and Trisha. Looking forward to hearing you all!

[Bruce Tushabe]

I am just starting out in Java and one of the books that has been recommended to me is Head First Java by Kathy. I am so excited to have her here. Welcome Kathy

[Campbell Ritchie]

Good to see you here, all three of you. Two of you are already familiar faces here. I hope you will have lots of new threads with awkward interesting questions in.

[Trisha Gee]

Hi everyone! It's a pleasure to be here

> Does this book cover Records, Modules, JLink, and JPackage?

The book mentions Records and JShell, although we didn't go into them in any depth (specifically with records it's because the feature hasn't been out long, and while we can teach the syntax, it's hard to teach "common practices" for something so new). We thought long and hard about teaching modules, but decided that at this point in time it's not something those starting their journey with Java will need to know. There are already good resources for learning about them later when you need to.

Trisha

[Rade Koncar]

welcome Kathy, Bert, and Trisha!!! I love you folks!

[Mark Spritzler]

I really miss seeing Kathy and Bert. You guys are always awesome.

[Mikalai Zaikin]

Welcome guys !!!

[Sai Hegde]

Love and respect, Kathy, Bert and Trisha. Good to see you guys here on the ranch!!!

[Pramod Patki]

Thank you Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates & Trisha Gee for writing the first "Head First Java" and "Thank You" time n for coming up with this new version.
I really wanted to see new version of "Head First Java".

When I read "Head First Java" for first time I couldn't believe technical books can be so effective, even more so about programming :-)

Best of luck!

[Nitin Menon]

Thanks for coming up with this book, Cathy, Bert and Trisha. Your publications have always helped me to solidify my understandings. I had loved Cathy-Bert's Head First Design patterns.

[Raydelto Hernandez]

I really enjoyed the first editions of the book. Looking forward to read this third edition.

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:This week, we're delighted to have Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates & Trisha Gee helping to answer questions about the new book Head First Java.
See the table of contents online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 and will end on Friday, July 22nd, 2022

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, O'Reilly.


Image from https://m.media-amazon.com

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.

[Peter Schuster]

Welcome Kathy, Bert, and Trisha!

Thanks for being here!

[David Ngwenya]

Welcome Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates & Trisha Gee.

Thank you for this latest, long overdue edition of Head First Java.

To my Queen and King of Java, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, thank you for the earlier Editions and also for creating the Head First Series. I got myself a copy of the 2nd Edition and it made me understand key foundational concepts in Java in a fun yet serious way. If only all programming books were just like the Head First series...

I hope Trisha Gee will become my Princess in Java after I manage to get a copy of this latest edition, so she can also become Java royalty 🙂.

Thanks again guys for this new edition, I can't wait to read it.

[Simon Roberts]

Welcome Kathy, Berth, and Trisha!

Good to have the original creator of this website back