what is the Best printed Java book to buy?

[Nipuna]

Hello.

I am hoping to buy a printed Java book to read when there is no power and when I have free time after the Exam.And Also I like printed books than PDFs.

What is the best one? without the java handbook since it's old and little hard to find.

Also i like big books They feel great. About 1000 Pages or more

And where can i buy it? I know

http://www.expo-graphic.com
And
http://www.ebay.com

Amazon is good but they are not sending so many books to SL.


Thanks

[Neo]

When I was giving you the ExpoGraphics link, I remember I told you about their online ordering system as well.

The main point is there isn't anything call THE BEST. There are many which address several target groups. For example, Java beginners books isn't good for expert reference, etc... So what you need to find is a popular beginners book.

If you believe me or not, there isn't anybody in this world who became an expert overnight. All the experts you have heard such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Bjarne Stroustrup, Linus Torvalds, etc... had started their programming career with a "Hello World" application. So don't even try to become one overnight which will not take you to the place you want. You need to walk step by step without missing concepts. Another point is 'be a child' when you learn. If you think you know a lot, you will never learn. There can be things you know in the book. But just don't skip. Read again to see that what you know is correct. I know who you are and that's why I have given you a little idea

Here I'm going to recommend you a book now. I guess both Herath and Enigma will recommend some books as well. But you SHOULD select ONLY ONE out of them (you can discuss what you select with us and come to an agreement) and start reading each letter, word from top to bottom. Otherwise this is never going to work. At the moment you are trying to take some from here and some from there, this will never work with any science subject. How many Java books the guys here have recommended you so far? I remember I myself recommended many. But you keep on looking for books but seems never read any. So you need to come to an agreement with ROBOT.LK that you only refer one book at a time and without giving proper reasons you are not going to switch. Nipuna, listen, switching books will never help you to become a developer. And in the other hand it is simply a waste of time for us. Okay, I guess you agree.

Java: A Beginner’s Guide - Since this is beginners book, I highly recommend you to read this from top to bottom (every letter every word)

Object-Oriented Programming and Java - This is another candidate to the section list

Let's take ideas from Herath and Enigma. Those guys are studying Java at the moment so they must be knowing some good books given as references from universities.

[Nipuna]

Yes I 100% agree.

I am asking this book to refer without skipping.

By The Way I have 20 Java tutorials I've downloaded so far. Newer finished one, I even didn't read some I downloaded them because i saw in so many forums this book is good that book is good.
I really need to practice a lot about java's getting user input since it's hard not like C++ that's a main reason to decrease my Interest.
But since i need it to BIT I made an Interest to it to learn. Because of that i read Head first java and gained my Knowledge up to OOP and I can understand what OOP is. I didn't even know what it is and Reading a lot and asking you guys i understood it. I don't know how did i understand it but it automatically came to my Mind.
But when i getting bottom of the Head First Java book i didn't understand the things and that book doesn't have Good Practice questions and some times Don't understand some things.

And I really say about some one who also helped me a lot. He is Madhawa at UCSC. He helped me via Gtalk a lot. Now I am not bothering him. I even don't talk to him because I did some works he got mad at me.

And Thanks let's wait for the others' ideas too.

[Neo]

You already know that Madhawa has already talked to me and he understood everything, who I'm, what we are doing, so and so? Because of that issue, I was talking to the other guy and he also finally end up with making a friendship. So those guys are really nice people. They are also trying their best to help people in their capacity.

It's up to you to decide whether you are talking to him or not. But I don't see any problem to your from ROBOT.LK on that. Everybody knows what is ROBOT.LK now and I don't see any problem now.

You can also take lot of help from Enigma as an internal resource of ROBOT.LK. However since everybody are involved with some day to day work, you will have to get your problems cleared by asking unclear questions. No one is able to explain you things from top to bottom.

Okay, so read things which you should do from your end. Ask many questions as possible after giving a try first. I'm sure this path will work for you.

[Nipuna]

Thanks

I will try that way and talk to Madhawa too.

[Nipuna]

I talked Madhawa today.

He is OK no Problem now

[Nipuna]

Oops a problem.

I just found out that this book doesn't have about GUI programing

Java: A Beginner’s Guide

What should I do? Because of this my interest for this is decreased.

[Neo]

GUI is not magic. It is just another set of classes which enabled Java to draw things quite nicely. All those classes are based on the same Java syntax and there isn't any difference. Once you complete the current book, you can easily move to next book preferably with GUI.

[Nipuna]

GUI is not magic. It is just another set of classes which enabled Java to draw things quite nicely. All those classes are based on the same Java syntax and there isn't any difference. Once you complete the current book, you can easily move to next book preferably with GUI.

Yes. I already know GUIs are classes.

But this is driven me crazy And It decreased my interest. But I motivated myself by saying

GUIs are just classes that are in java.awt and java.swing I can make them after I finish reading this book and getting the knowledge.

After getting a little rest now my mind is clear and my uninterest has gone. I hope this to stay as this forever.

By the way, what are the good books to me to follow after completing this one? That has GUI designs and so on