{"id":520,"date":"2011-02-09T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2011-02-09T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:09:42","slug":"effective-java-2nd-must-read-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Effective Java (2nd) – Must Read Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I read the 1st edition (my recommended book<\/a>) a few years back. I just re-read the 2nd edition. It’s one of the best Java books around (the other must read would be Java Concurrency in Practice).<\/p>\n

Read it.<\/p>\n

Re-read it.<\/p>\n

The 2nd edition is a little harder to read. Some chapters are too long and are not as cohesive (not like they were in the 1st ed), but still, getting all these tips from a Java champion is very valuable. At the very least, you can use his tips to win your arguments and influence others on your team.<\/p>\n

And that’s the reason I’m recommending this book: read it to become a better Java programmer. Isn’t that a good reason? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read the 1st edition (my recommended book) a few years back. I just re-read the 2nd edition. It’s one of the best Java books around (the other must read would be Java Concurrency in Practice). Read it. Re-read it. The 2nd edition is a little harder to read. Some chapters are too long and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,10],"tags":[54,56,33],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-books-i-recommend","category-java","tag-books","tag-java","tag-recommended"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pragmaticcraftsman.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}