Some of you might ask, Why software project manager should read books? Isn't they are experienced enough to become a project manager and handle software development? A genuine question but Software management is harder than any other management purely because every software is different than the previous one. Many other streams of engineering e.g. Civil or Mechanical got better in terms of estimation and management with the help of software but software development is still run on experience.
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Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 November 2016
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Top 2 Books for OCPJP8 Certification - Java 8 1Z0-809, 810, 813 Exam
This is the second part of best books for Java 8 certifications. Since you need to pass two exams, OCAJP8 and OCPJP8 to become a Java SE 8 certified developer, I have shared some of the best OCAJP8 books in the last article. In this article, I will tell you more about the second exam OCPJP8 and suggest best books prepare OCPJP8. This exam is known as professional level exam and it's tougher than the associate level exam. The OCPJP8 stands for Oracle Certified Professional Java Programmer. The exam code for this certification is 1Z0-809. This is if you don't have any prior Java certifications but you can still become a Java SE 8 certified developer by giving upgrade exams e.g. 1Z0-810 if you already passed the OCJPJP7 exam and 1z0-813 if you have passed OCPJP6 exams. The books suggested in this article is primarily for the 1Z0-809 exam but it can also be used for upgrade exams e.g. 1Z0-810 (upgrade from Java SE 7 to Java SE 8) and 1Z0-813 (upgrade from Java SE 6 to Java SE 8) certifications.
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Thursday, 13 October 2016
Best books to Learn Java 8
I often receive emails and queries asking about some good books to learn Java 8. Since Java 8 is very different from any other JDK release, in terms of language and API enhancement you really need a good book to learn fundamentals. In short, based upon my 2 years of learning and reading Java 8 books, I can say that Java SE 8 for Really Impatient is hands down the best book to learn Java 8. It covers all the essential things released in JDK 8, not just lambda expression and streams but also new Date and Time API and several other minor enhancement yet important features, which often goes un-noticed. It doesn't scare you with comprehensive detail as well and tell you what you need to know as an application developer. It's not going to teach you fundamentals of functional programming, but it will teach you how to use the map and flatMap operations.
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Saturday, 1 October 2016
5 Best books for OCAJP8 Exam 1Z0-808 - Java8
It's been more than 2 years since Java SE 8 was launched on 17th March 2014 and almost 2 years since we have OCAJP8 live. You might know that in order to become a Java SE 8 certified developer you need to pass two examples, the OCAJP8 (Exam 1Z0-808) and OCPJP8 (Exam 1Z0-809). The first one is called associate level certification and the second one is called professional level certification. When OCAJP8 first comes, there were not enough good books to prepare this exam and many candidates rely heavily on Java 8 books and professional exam simulators like Whizlabs and Enthuware, but if you are going to appear for the OCAJP8 exam now, there are no such problems. In this article, you will find some of the best books to prepare for OCAJP8 exams.
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Friday, 9 September 2016
Best Book to Learn Java for C and C++ Programmer?
In the last 2 decade many Java programmers started programming with C and C++ but the situation is changed now, you have more choices e.g. you can choose Python or you can even start with Java. It seems Academia is preferring Python in USA and Java in India, but there are still many programmers who know C and C++ and wants to learn Java for one or other reasons. I often receive emails from my readers about book recommendation and recently a couple of them asked me to suggest best Java books for C and C++ programmer. I can relate those beginners to myself because I have also gone through the same phase but those days the university text books are our only source to learn new thing. We didn't have broadband and unlimited access to Internet and eBooks was not popular at that time but things have changed. The good thing is now I know a couple of really good books which can help to utilize most of his C and C++ knowledge to learn Java e.g. Core Java Volume 1 - Fundamentals by Cay S. Horstmann which provides comparative analysis with C++ time to time.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Top 5 Books for Programming/Coding Interviews - Best of lot
If you are preparing for Programming Job interviews and looking for some of the best books for programming questions then you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to share a couple of good books to prepare coding, software design, and data structure algorithm questions, which are essential for any coding interviews. Though a programming interview also explores other areas of software development e.g. the programming language you would be mainly using in your project e.g. C++ or Java. The database and SQL based questions, the operating systems and UNIX related questions, some of the software design and object oriented design pattern questions and much more, but coding based questions forms the core of programming interviews.
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Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Top 5 Books to Learn Concurrent Programming and Multithreading in Java - Best, Must Read
Books are very important to learn something new and despite being in the electronic age, where books have lost some shine to internet and blogs, I still read and recommend them to get a complete and authoritative knowledge on any topic e.g. concurrent programming. In this article, I will share five best books to learn concurrent programming in Java. These books cover basics, starting from how to create and start a thread, parallel programming, concurrency design patterns, an advantage of concurrency and of course pitfalls, issues, and problems introduced due to multithreading. learning concurrent programming is a difficult task, not even in Java but also on other languages like C++ or modern days JVM languages like Groovy, Scala, Closure, and JRuby.
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Saturday, 11 June 2016
2 Books to Prepare Java EE 6 Web Component Developer Certified Expert 1Z0-899 Exam (OCEJWCD)
Oracle launched "Java EE 6 Web Component Developer Certified Expert 1Z0-899 Exam" in 2011 to replace "Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 Java Server Pages and Servlet Developer Certified Expert Exam" and the "Oracle Certified Expert, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 Java Server Pages and Servlet Developer" certification. They are equivalent of plain old SCWCD exam of Sun Microsystems era. Frankly speaking, I always found sun naming less confusing and clearer than Oracle's e.g. SCJP was much better than OCAJP and OCPJP. Though this exam is based on your knowledge of Servlet and JSP as per Java EE 6 specification, any book which covers this two technology e.g. "Head First Servlet and JSP" is highly recommended because Servlets and JSP are not changed much except Servlet 3.0 specification, which you can prepare separately. Oracle also provides training and preparation material and you can also take help from commercial mock exam providers like Whizlabs and Enthuware.
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Monday, 23 May 2016
5 Free Data Structure and Algorithm Books in Java Programming
In last article, I have shared 5 good data structure and algorithms books, but those were not free. After that article, I received some feedback about how about free data structure and algorithm books? Fair enough, everybody loves free eBooks, don't you? In the past, I have shared a list of free Java programming books, so I had some idea. I did some more research on internet and checked my collection as well. Fortunately, there are a couple of good Data Structure and Algorithm books which are available for free PDF download or for online reading and in this list we will see some of them. Data Structure and Algorithm is one of the most important topics for any programmer, not just for interview point of view but also about writing good programs and problem solving. A good choice of data structure can reduce the complexity of the algorithm and can improve its performance drastically.
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Saturday, 5 March 2016
3 Books to Learn Eclipse IDE for Java JEE Programmers - Best of Lot
In order to become a good Java developer solid knowledge of Eclipse IDE, or whatever IDE you use e.g. Netbeans or IntelliJ Idea, is a must. Java has been blessed with excellent tooling which turbo-charge application development. IDEs or Integrated Development Environment allows you to code, run, test and debug from just one tool. They are the immense productivity booster. Since I have started Java development coding in Notepad, TextPad, and JCreator, I know how it feels having the power of IDEs with you. There are three big IDEs in Java world, Eclipse, NetBeans and IntelliJ Idea. First two are free and third one requires the license. I use Eclipse and it's also the most popular IDE in Java world.
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Monday, 8 February 2016
5 Good Books to Learn Unit testing, JUnit and TDD in Java
Unit testing is very, very important thing to learn adapt. I would say this is the single most practice in my book which differentiates a good programmer with a professional programmer. It's one way you can see how disciplined a programmer is? It's also the best way to write clean code; a code which can stand the test of time, a code which is flexible enough to accommodate future changes and a code which you don't afraid while changing. Despite several efforts of promoting unit testing by programming community and emphasizing unit testing by many notable programmers, it's still one of the lacking practice.
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Saturday, 6 February 2016
Top 5 Java Performance Tuning Books - Best of Lot, Must read
Why should Java developer read a book on Performance tuning? When I first faced this question long time back, I thought I will do it later, but I never get back to that for a long time. I realize my mistake of having a lack of knowledge on performance measurement, tuning and finding bottleneck only when I faced serious performance and scalability issues on our mission critical server side financial application written in Java. It's true that when you really need it you learn most, but those times are not the best time to learn fundamentals, in fact, those times are to apply and correct your misunderstanding. This is why I am sharing these Java performance books to all Java programmers and suggesting them to take some time and go through at least one book in full. By the way, these books are in addition to my 5 must-read books for Java programmers.
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Which Programming Book Would You Buy if 100$ is Given to Spend?
Hello Guys, it's time to take a hypothetical question in Javarevisited. Which programming book, would you love to buy, if you are given 100$ to spend? I know, when it comes to buying, people want to the worth of their money, and that's why I am posting this question to you guys. Suppose you are looking some books in a bookstore and suddenly salesman comes and say, at this particular minute, we are giving you 100$ FREE to buy any programming book. Now you just have 10 minutes to complete your purchase and take away those awesome Java books absolutely for FREE, what are the books you are going to buy?
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Monday, 18 January 2016
Top 5 Hibernate Books for Java Developers - Best, Must read
Hibernate is one of the most popular, open source ORM (Object Relational Mapping) framework, which has now become a standard for developing persistence layer on Java enterprise application, along with JPA (Java Persistence API). I often receive requests to suggest which book is best to learn to hibernate or recommendation about some good books on Spring and Hibernate. This motivates me to write this article about some of the best book on Hibernate, available in the market. Earlier I have shared some of the must-read books on Spring framework for Java developer, which is quite helpful for picking a book on Spring. Similar to Spring framework, experience in Hibernate is most sought after thing in Java JEE development roles.
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Sunday, 17 January 2016
5 books to learn Spring framework and Spring MVC for Java Programmers
Spring and Spring MVC is one of the most popular Java frameworks and most of new Java projects uses Spring these days. Java programmer often asks questions like which books is good to learn Spring MVC or What is the best book to learn Spring framework etc. Actually, there are many books to learn Spring and Spring MVC but only certain books can be considered good because of their content, examples or the way they explained concept involved in Spring framework. Similar to Top 5 books on Java programming we will some good books on Spring in this article, which not only help beginners to start with Spring but also teaches some best practices.
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