On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:19 AM, DonLeo wrote:
> > Hi, > > My background: about 40 years experience in many fields of computing, > mainly in the Scientific Computing Area. My experience ranges from > working with small machines (not in physical size - 4 Kbyte core > memory) in 1970, early adapter of Unix (1976), early experimentor with > Linux (from version 0.12 I seem to remember), and I have used or > experimented with MANY programming languages, including LISP, > Objective-C, Smalltalk, Scheme, Python and Ruby but didnt make real > practical use of many due to political restrictions and standards > within the company I worked for. > Now I am being drawn to dig into Clojure, and being retired, I should > have enough time for that. HOWEVER, for some reason I always kept > clear from JAVA... The reason for that I wont go into at this moment. > Clojure and also the JVM make me recosider this. The JVM is something > which cant be ignored, certainly seeing the very good use of it for > example by Clojure and JRuby. (It does remind me of the P-code what > was generated by the first Pascal compiler) > > The question: As i think I should get a better understanding of Java > and the environment of the JVM to better understand the Clojure > environment, I need to get one or two books on that, to lay a base to > build upon. So I need suggestions on my order with Amazon: > > What book or books should I order to base my JAVA knowledgde on ? > > Here are 3 good books on Java fundamentals: 1. Java Programming from the Beginning http://www.amazon.com/Java-Programming-Beginning-K-King/dp/0393974375/ ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237204475&sr=8-1 Two caveats here: -This book may be too rudimentary considering your experience. A good intro to OOP though if you're looking for it. -I thought he had a newer edition out. This one is from 2000, so it doesn't cover the new stuff in Java 1.5 2. Just Java http://www.amazon.com/Just-Java-6th-Microsystems-Press/dp/0131482114/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237204784&sr=1-1 3. Learning Java http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Java-Pat-Niemeyer/dp/0596008732/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237204946&sr=1-1 Pretty up-to-date and covers a lot of ground. Aloha, David Sletten --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
