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best book for learning java?

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rubix

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what is the best book to get for learning to program in java? i have to use java to write a compiler for one of my classes, if that helps any for the best book to get.
 
If that's a real compilers course in a real CS program at a 4-year university, then there's one book that applies:

Known as the Tiger book

In contrast to the Dragon Book that is a staple of most compiler courses. If you just need to learn enough Java to implement a compiler, then any good intro book would do. Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java is a particular favorite. None of these books will really cover the compiler construction tools though.

Depending on who's teaching the course, the task might be not that hard or it could be very difficult. It largely depends on which language you have to implement. A real full-featured language is often tough; something like any version of C++ is a nightmare.
 
thanks for the links. i am taking a real compiler course for a 4-year cs program and i know no java because we used c++ and pascal in the past. we have to code a compiler in java and it will compile C code and output java byte code... or something like that. and this is the hardest class there is that is required by cs majors here.
 
I recommend NOT using the core Java books. I used them for an OOP class that required no previous experience with Java and I really struggled to correlate the code from these text with any one elses code (including the required texts and online tutorials/examples).
 
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