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Simon Harrer In the words of a famous sports company: "Just do it".

Don't let your fears and worries that you might have stop you. Just do it and you'll be surpris…moreIn the words of a famous sports company: "Just do it".

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Simon Harrer That's a long story. It all started in 2011 when I and Jörg (one of my co-authors) had the opportunity to design two new Java courses at University. I…moreThat's a long story. It all started in 2011 when I and Jörg (one of my co-authors) had the opportunity to design two new Java courses at University. In addition to teaching Java and Concurrency on the JVM, we wanted to teach clean code practices through code reviews of the students homeworks, interactive code reviews in class, and code reviews as part of the oral exam. Over the course of six years, we've seen and marked hundreds of thousand lines of Java code by beginners. And we started to see patterns, a lot of them. That's the main source of knowledge for "Java by Comparison".

With the second co-author, Linus, joining our group at University in 2016, we started to collect those anti-patterns, explain why they are problematic, provide a solution, and explan why the solution is better. That's how the two-page layout of "Java by Comparison" is born.

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	Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples by Simon Harrer (Goodreads Author), Jörg Lenhard, Linus Dietz 4.25 avg rating — 116 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Simon Harrer liked Andrew's review of Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples: "Going to recommend this one to peers. There’s a great variety of examples and ideas to use day to day. The print format is perfect for readability. I’d like to see this format for other programming languages I use."
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Simon Harrer liked Ravi Sinha's review of Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples: "Great tutorial by example."
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Simon Harrer liked Daniel Di Giovanni's review of Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples: "Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples is a nice little book as a supplement to programming experience. The early chapters are like a collection of some things I've learned through countless hours of searching through questions on" Read more of this review »
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Simon Harrer liked James Stanier's review of Java by Comparison: Become a Java Craftsman in 70 Examples: "A compendium of useful and pragmatic advice to have by your side as you perfect your craft day in, day out. Extremely pertinent and you'll find yourself reaching for it again and again."
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