The book itself is broken down into 14 chapters to explain the core Java basics. You’ll learn about some language fundamentals, GUI programming, multithreading, and I/O basics.

I don't need to be taught in some new age, 2 minute attention span, unorganized piece of crap manner that the head first books employ.<BR><BR>The core java books are much much better as is ...

The book Java Reflection in Action was published in 2004, but remains largely applicable eight years later. In this post, I review this book and cover its strengths and its weaknesses. In general ...

I started off on Java with the Core Java books, Volumes 1 and 2. They're very good about new editions, the newest include 1.4.1.

Horstmann: I'm Cay Horstmann. I'm the author of the "Core Java" book that's been around for 20-some years. It's probably what I'm best known for. That's what keeps me looking at the forefront of Java.