Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o'Java (Mr. Bunny Series) (Paperback)

Like his previous Best Seller* that no normal person has ever heard of ("Mr. Bunny's Guide to Active X") this gem raises and answers questions that not even normal programmers (oxymoron?) would ever think to ask. E.g., "Which came first, the Comment or the Code?" -- answer -- White Space!

It pokes fun at everything from its own copyright "No part of this book ... blah, blah, blah, without the secret handshake." to resume writing suggestions "... listing your greatest accomplishments (unless, of course, you are Monica Lewinsky.)"

I liked "Diagram 1" which displayed everything from the top level ("Java Program") down to the lowest levels ("Pizza Crumbs" and "Tile or Carpet.")

The Common Programming Errors section (like everything else) was also was amazingly creative (and more importantly, funny!) -- including "Calling no argument constructor when there is no no-argument constructor is a no-no resulting in an argument with the compiler." and "C."

Finally, explaining the challenge the compiler faces -- making your java code understandable to a box of sand. (In all my years of compiler writing, I never though of this.)

Get this book!! Even if you're not a nerd, it will have you rolling. (What about the "Backward" which is, of course, the Forward in reverse!)

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*I saw this #1 rating in "Boston Software Newspaper" also, one of the local book store owners told me they sold nearly twice as many "Mr. Bunny's Guide to Active X" last year as the #2 title.)

What is good about a programming language? Hah...Foof!

For example, like the idiot humans we are, we once thought pointers were cool! Now we think no pointers are cool!

If you cannot understand how to understand this book, understand that BUNNY understands that JAVA (J.A.V.a., and I think you KNOW what I mean by "_tHAT") is only a lame construct devised by a bunch of polymorphic objects (humans) devised by a bunch of amorphous BLOBs developed by a bunch of BUNNYS(Binary Universal Nil-oriented Nonsenso-YakkonandonometerS), all of whom or which may or may not exist only in the imagination of the BEitSk (Big Engineer in the Sky).

I give this book one star, but it is VERY ENORMOUS and also subject to numerary interpretation by your individual browser.