{"id":25,"date":"2004-08-11T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2004-08-11T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T12:56:08","slug":"thinking-in-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Thinking In Java"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruceeckel.com\/\">Bruce Eckel<\/a>. I have been recommending this to my students since I came across the downloadable version of the first edition, <!-- more --> which was probably around 2000. Since then I seem to have updated to a copy of the second edition, and I see on Bruce&#8217;s web site that a third edition is now available. Interesting point &#8211; this is one book, the first in fact, that I found as an html download, read, and then immediately bought. The main reason I keep recommending it is because it treats Java as a proper programming language, and starts and continues from object oriented principles; it probably helps that it is the first book I found on Java that wasn&#8217;t based around applets, too. Every other introductory text that I have read is either infuriatingly lightweight, or really a reference text. This sparkles, has humour, and treats Java so that I can understand what is being written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Bruce Eckel. I have been recommending this to my students since I came across the downloadable version of the first edition, which was probably around 2000. Since then I seem to have updated to a copy of the second edition, and I see on Bruce&#8217;s web site that a third edition is now available. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[10,23],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-for-apples","tag-book-review","tag-java"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}