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Title: Don't waste your money
Review: Bruce Eckel wrote one my favorite book - "Thinking in C++". The book was succinct and explained the concepts very well. Making the leap to Java I decided to pick up "Thinking in Java". I suppose if I knew nothing about programming and had all the time in the world I would have had gotten more out of it. However if you know C, and especially C++, pick up Java in the Nutshell (3rd Ed). Java in Nutshell is a lot faster to go through and you will get more out of it than this book.Besides being long winded it is also tries to be a comprehensive "bible" for Java. The problem is that the sections on swing don't have the depth to tackle real world projects. So you will end up picking up books on specific Java systems anyway.Java is changing fast and by the time you get through this there will be two new versions out there. Read Java in a Nutshell and you will be ready to go in less than half the time.
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