For the convenience of CodeGym students, we decided to collect lectures and articles on the most important topics in programming. The seventh selection is about books on programming. In the mini-guide, we briefly outline the essence of the articles, and if you follow the link, you can learn more about the topic of interest. Add a collection to your bookmarks and return to it when you need to.
In this article, the author has collected publications that will help a novice programmer gain that same IT erudition, understanding of future work, and also simplify the task of choosing the best solution. That is, getting a job and doing your best in it from the very beginning. The collection includes both classic programming textbooks for students and desktop books for programmers of all generations.
A selection with a similar title, but with a slightly different list of books. According to the author, he has been looking for his personal "best Java tutorial for beginners" for quite some time. The text contains several Java books that were useful to him to a greater or lesser extent at different stages of his studies.
More and more free or almost free materials are being posted on the network, from which it is really possible to learn programming to the level that allows you to find a job, and learning will not take too much time. The article presents the best programming tutorials of various types (from books to games and university courses), with which you can not only acquire basic coding skills, but also master the knowledge and skills in programming, which are the prerogative of professionals.
The selection has collected new (or not very new, but definitely worth reading) books about Java and related technologies that are worth reading. For example, the first one on this list is Java in the cloud. Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Cloud Foundry ”is a very useful book about Java and cloud technologies, which was published recently.
A large selection of literature on programming, which will be useful to both a novice and an experienced developer. The article lists books not only on Java, but also on soft skills, databases and various technologies.
Reviews and book reviews on Java and other technologies
Review of the famous series "Java. Professional's Library" by Kay Horstmann in two volumes. In the first volume of the series, the author explains the basics: from syntax to key characteristics of OOP, from an overview of the collections library to multi-threaded programming. Each chapter touches not only on general terms and principles of work (for example, the reflection mechanism), but also clarifies some of the nuances. The second volume - "Advanced Programming Tools" - deepens some topics. For example, the SWING graphics execution library. It also introduces the reader to a tool for working with collections - a library of data streams, or simply Streams.
A very detailed review of the book "Grokaem Algorithms" by Aditya Bhargava. The author examines each section of the book step by step: whether the topic is presented in an accessible way, whether the information provided is enough. Read the review and decide whether to buy a book about algorithms.
A short but helpful review of the Head First Java book. “The book deals with all the main themes in sequence. Explanations are simple and intelligible. The book is great for: learning Java from scratch and getting a general idea about it; as a material used to clarify (understand) the topic; to repeat themes, the understanding of which was lost, ”the author writes. By the way, the author of the article mentions that Head First Java is good to use in conjunction with CodeGym. It gives additional (compared to JR's lectures) information on them.
This book is one of the top 10 most popular books on Stackoverflow, and for good reason. The ease of presentation, the fundamental theme and quality examples make the book in demand for many years. The review describes the features, summary, advantages and disadvantages of the book.
The book presented in the article, without exaggeration, can be called fundamental: it is the main guide to Hibernate among everything that has been written about this technology. This can be explained quite easily, because among its authors are the founder of the Hibernate project, Gavin King, and a member of the Hibernate development team, Christian Bauer.
This book is about learning and using data structures and algorithms in programming. It will explain how data structures define the way data is organized in memory, and how algorithms perform various operations on these structures.
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