Java interested folks.

I recommend reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.

It's worth reading.

Even James Gosling praised this book.

@namenlossss for 2nd edition, it should be easily available online.
For third edition, it is little hard to find one.

Btw, I just bought it. A must have book in my library.

@theScientist as mentioned in the book. It's not for learning Java like cookbook.
It assumes one is well aware of Java.

It's very practical based.

@theScientist it's quite useful when writing production code that can have large impacts.
And if you work on a project where you can parallely apply some of the items, then even that's a great learning.

Recently, I learnt that enum are based way to implement singleton because it is thread safe, 1 instance even after serialisation and even reflection can't do any damage to it.
Then, I got the concept of having immutable classes and objects.

Still way more to learn. Bought it this week only.

Java tho...

Its a really great book. Dense as it requires one to have a good level of understanding of the language. Definitely not for beginners but by far my favorite Java book :) have fun man!

I've read the second edition and now I'm eagerly waiting for the 3rd edition to be available in India.

Effective Java, page 1:
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Page 2:
Table of contents:
Page 1..................... Effective Java

So I have a question about java: isn't it a problem dat java programs don't run natively and require java to be installed? I can understand people don't want to install another program when they want to run your app.

What about Ryan Gosling, did he like it?

@Jifuna you can ship the JRE with your applocation, as long as you follow their license. In fact, IDEs like IntelliJ usually ship a (potentially even a modified) JRE, so that you can run them without downloading anything else.

Have it as an ebook. Worth reading, definitely, if you already have a good level of understanding of the language. I do not recommend it for beginners. I don't think beginners start with writing an API. Nevertheless, give it a try. After month of coding in Java, maybe read clean code first. After some years of experience, try effective java.

@aritzh Ah, I understand. Thank you