Practical Java: Programming Language Guide

by Pankaj Jalote, Peter Haggar

Provides intermediate to advanced programmers with a practical approach to producing robust code. A rules-based format examines 68 key topics on improving code, with examples and solutions accompanied by explanations. Coverage includes objects and equality, exception handling, performance, and multithreading. A special section provides insight into Java performance issues and performance improvement techniques. The author is a senior software engineer at IBM.

Genres: Programming

First published February 11, 2000

About the author

Professor Pankaj Jalote is the Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology.

He completed his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985, M.S. from Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1980.

Reviews

[Chris Lira · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty good book. It bogged down a bit for me in the extensive coverage of multithreading, bit that's a minor complaint. I learned a few things.

[Ernest Cadorin · Rating 2 out of 5]

same format as "Effective C++"

[Timothy Culp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peter Haggar is a fellow Clarkson-ite.