Top 10 Books to learn Java

Top 10 Books to learn Java

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Hello Everyone!!!

In today’s world, most people spent lots of time on screens for learning, practicing, and watching. But still, some people love to read lots of books(like me) who do not want to learn from screens but books.

In this, I came with the top 10 books that help you to master Java Programming Language. I have also provided the specialized features of those books so that you get some idea about that particular book.

I have divided this article into 2 sections.

One is for beginner level and the second is for Advanced Level. If you think you have a strong foundation of core java concepts, you can go directly and start reading with Advanced level books.

Beginner Level Books :

  1. Head First Java :

Head First JavaHead First Java

Features :

  • Explains the concepts in layman terms.

  • Relates the java programming concepts to real-life examples.

  • Covers all the OOPS concepts in great detail.

  • Covers distributed programming with RMI and Network sockets and threads.

  • Also, this book covers 42 mind-blowing puzzles.

  • You can buy this book from this link.

2. Clean Code :

Clean CodeClean Code

Features:

  • Mainly centered around the OOPs principles.

  • Thi book is divided into three sections based on the level of complexity, each section containing: Patterns, Practices, and Principles, a Wide Range of Case studies, List of techniques gathered while curating the case studies.

  • This book will give you a strong knowledge of Java and teach you various programming techniques and practices that will help you in your day-to-day life as a programmer.

3. Java The Complete Reference Eleventh Edition :

Java The Complete ReferenceJava The Complete Reference

Features:

  • It is a very convenient and comprehensive reference book.

  • Well structured and fully featured source of Java Programming with real-world examples.

  • The perfect book for learning java as it covers basic java concepts such as Java 8 APIs.

  • Also covers extensive topics like JavaBeans, servlets, applets, and swing.

So If you are on a journey to master Java, this book is a perfect match for you.

4. Java Concurrency in practice :

Java Concurrency in PracticeJava Concurrency in Practice

Features:

  • Best for learning java advanced concepts like concurrency and multithreading.

  • Preferred by most of the ardent Java Developers.

You can get this book from this link.

5. Effective Java :

Effective JavaEffective Java

Features:

  • Must have book for every Java programmer.

  • This book constitutes 78 best practices that help a programmer to code effectively.

  • All the best practices in this book have been categorized into 11 distinct sections like Concurrency, Generics, and Methods.

  • The latest edition of this book is strongly built around Java 7,8 and 9.

You can buy this book from the link.

Advanced Level Books :

6. Java: A Beginner’s Guide

Java: A Beginner’s GuideJava: A Beginner’s Guide

Features :

  • This book is useful for noobs as well as seasoned Java programmers.

  • It is one of the most comprehensive and complete books available in the market for learning java.

  • Comes with extensive hands-on exercises as well as a quiz section at the end of each chapter.

  • It includes complex concepts like lambda expressions and functional interfaces.

7. Java Performance: The Definite Guide

Java PerformanceJava Performance

Features:

  • This book is packed with advanced concepts such as Garbage collection, JVM nad performance tuning, etc.

  • Covers the advanced Java concepts in a simple yet effective manner.

  • This book will teach you how to maximize Java threading and synchronization performance features, improve Java-driven database application performances, tackle performance issues in Java EE and Java SE APIs, etc.

8. Spring in Action:

Spring in JavaSpring in Java

Features:

  • It covers the Java framework i.e, Spring.

  • This book covers Spring which is one of the most heavily used Java frameworks for web application development.

  • This book covers deeper concepts like JDBC to find out the unseen shortcomings of JDK, etc.

  • This book will also tell you how the Spring Framework helps in filling up these small yet significant gaps.

9. Test Driven :

Test-DrivenTest-Driven

Features:

  • Excellent book for learning how to build unique automobile testing programs.

  • This book provides industry-based examples to test-drive Java code.

  • It also covers topics like acceptance test-driven development, the Fit framework, and testing Java EE components — JSPs, Servlets, and Spring Controllers.

10. Mastering Java Machine Learning :

Mastering Java Machine LearningMastering Java Machine Learning

Features:

  • This book provides a comprehensive knowledge of linear algebra, probability, and statistics.

  • This book also teaches standard issues such as text-mining, classification, clustering, big data, and machine learning.

  • This book is loaded with 10 real-life case studies each of them highlighting various techniques of machine learning.

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