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While it is important to write software that performs well, many other issues should concern the professional Java developer. Read the first page
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If this little tome is flawed at all it's by ommission. Hardened old coders like me will appreciate its brevity, while beginners might miss the point of some of the advice until experience bites 'em. An extra sentence or two of explanation and a few more code fragments would not go amiss. The first section "General Principles" is a few points short too. Although you can derive such maxims as "write the test before the code" and "don't use more APIs than you need to" from the general thrust of the text, I would have preferred these made explicit.
Gripes aside, this is an excellent book that does exactly what it says on the cover, and has gained a permanent place next to my keyboard.
In today's world, full of rich and wordy books, a distillation of fact in such compact form is essential to my day to day work, and to that of my development teams.
Apart from that, writing such a compact treatise is in keeping with the common minimalistic approach that makes java based development so successful.
Basically, if you program in Java you need this book!
I use the book as a guideline on how to style sourcecode, comments and documentation in every project... Read more
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