All the books 'fadden' recommends are quite good. Eckel even makes earlier editions of his book available for free online.
But there is one more book that I think seriously deserves mention here, even though none of these is a "Java equivalent for K&R (there isn't one)": that is O'Reilly Press's Head First series book on it, http://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Java-Kathy-Sierra/dp/0596009208. This whole series is the only technical series to take advantage of the best and latest results in cognitive science to present the material in such a way that it is efficiently and effectively absorbed by the reader. On Jun 10, 1:07 pm, fadden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 8, 6:55 am, luciofm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a C and C++ background and i'm looking for "THE" java book, like the > > "C Programming Language, best know as K&R, for C and the "C++ Programming > > Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup for C++. > > If you're looking for reference material, _The Java Language > Specification_ and _The Java Programming Language_ (published by Sun > through Addison-Wesley) are the canonical references. > > Bruce Eckel's _Thinking in Java_ is better for "everyday" sorts of > things. And no Java coding library is complete without Josh Bloch's > _Effective Java_. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
