Title: Useful tips, tricks and
Review: A very readable book that an aspiring developer should read after mastering the basics of Java. The contents is well-thought out, Java specific, and thus very good. No fluff here, and it does live up to the expectations set by C. Meyers! It won't turn you into a Java guru (for that, you need to know the core libraries very well - collections, networking, threads), but will move you in that direction quite a bit.I loved the sections on Methods Common to All Objects (an equivalent of the 'canonical form ' in C++), immutable objects (author presents coherent reasoning behind them, it got me thinking and I saw the light!) exceptions (this is a very pedestrian topic, the advice is excellent and time-saving). Also, the typesafe enum pattern was very good.The book is very well written and a real treat. Definitely buy it as your second or third book on Java :-)
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