There is a pair of java books I cut my teeth on, an I would recommend them to anyone.
Core Java Volumes I & II, by Horstman and Cornell. Amazing reference, two of the best technical books I've ever read. Cover usage, gives code examples, and a tremendous amount of history & theory (for their audience, anyway). The best place to start with Java, IMO. On Mar 30, 4:39 pm, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's a few posts on the mailing list suggesting some good starting > points. You can get far in Clojure without resorting to Java but it > definitely helps to know some if you really want to advance your knowledge > of Clojure's inner workings as well as get it to interoperate with Java > libraries. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Santanu <thisissant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Everybody, > > > (Sorry if this post appears twice, but the first post seems to have > > vanished) > > > I have recently downloaded Clojure and am learning it. > > > As of now, I feel that to do anything substantial with Clojure, I have > > to > > be able to know how to access the Java libraries from within Clojure. > > > But the problem is, I don't know Java. I know C, some Scheme, little > > bit > > Haskell, etc. but no Java. I am not interested in Java anyway. I > > downloaded > > Java documentation and am trying to go through interesting looking > > functions to try and use from within Clojure. But with no knowledge of > > Java, I am having problems exploring the various functions in the Java > > libraries. > > > Could you please suggest any Java book (and the relevant chapters) > > that > > will teach me _just_enough_ Java so that I can understand how to use > > the Java > > library documentation effectively. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Regards, > > Santanu Chatterjee --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
