Books For Developers

Welcome to the Books section.
We don't promise this list is all-encompasing, but we try to keep it as complete as we can!

Java Primer Plus by Paul Tyma, Gabriel Torok, and Troy Downing

Waite Press Group
$39.95
See http://www.waite.com/waite/

Essential Java - Developing Interactive Applications for the WWW

by Jason J. Manger,McGraw-Hill Europe.
$39.95
Covers Java and JavaScript (50/50) for beginners. Approx. 330 pages. Includes CD. All of beta 6 Netscape 2.0 and above. Code examples on Web-site. See http://www.gold.net/users/ag17/index.html.

Web Site Programming With Java by David Harms, Barton Fiske, and Jeffrey Rice

McGraw Hill
$36.95

Java Manual of Style by Nathan Gurewich and Ori Gurewich

Ziff Davis Press
$24.99

Active Java by Adam Freeman and Darrel Ince

Addison Wesley
$29.95
See http://www.aw.com/cseng/authors/freeman.a/actjava/actjava.html

Java Sourcebook

A Complete Guide To Creating Java Applets For the Web

by Ed Anuff (of HotWired)

John Wiley & Sons Inc.
$29.95

Java For C/C++ Programmers by Michael C. Daconta

John Wiley & Sons Inc.
See http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Just Java by Peter van der Linden

SunSoft Press
$34.95
See http://www.prenhall.com/~java_sun

Core Java by Cornell, G. and C. S. Horstman.

SunSoft Press
Definitely one of the best Java books out there
See http://www.prenhall.com/~java_sun

Java By Example by Jerry R. Jackson et. al.

SunSoft Press
$34.95
See http://www.prenhall.com/~java_sun

Instant Java by John A. Pew

SunSoft Press
$29.95
See http://www.prenhall.com/~java_sun

Java in a Nutshell by O'Reilly Publishing

The 418-page volume contains descriptions of all the Java classes and their related calls, plus an introduction to important Java concepts. With an alphabetic listing of commands, a clean layout featuring easy-to-browse entries, and a lie-flat binding, this book is designed to be used on the fly.
The first chapter discusses Java's characteristics and why it's so important. The book then puts Java into perspective by summarizing the differences between Java and C and by explaining the object-oriented programming constructs in Java--an accelerated introduction to Java for C and C++ programmers who want to learn the language fast.
O'Reilly has posted an excerpt from Java in a Nutshell, entitled "How Java Differs from C," on the company's new Java page (http://www.ora.com/info/java). The page also contains links to additional Java resources.
$14.95.

The Java Handbook

by Patrick Naughton, the man who conceived Java!
See http://www.starwave.com/people/naughton/book.
Availability: Soon!

Teach Yourself Java In 21 Days

by Laura Lemay and Charles L. Perkins, published by Sams.net
An excellent in-depth book.
See http://www.lne.com/Web/Java or http://www.mcp.com/samsnet/books/tyjava/.
$39.99 Available: Now!

Hooked on Java

by Arthur van Hoff, Sami Shaio, Orca Starbuck -- developers of the JDK!