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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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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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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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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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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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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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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