Java Puzzlers, a new book by Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect, and Neal Gafter, Google software engineer and Java technology evangelist, contains some 95 "puzzlers" and is designed to amuse, tantalize, challenge, and educate Java developers. Bloch and Gafter model puzzlers on optical illusions: In each puzzler, initial appearances are deceiving, and things are not what they seem. As such, puzzlers tease developers into confronting some of the spontaneous assumptions that their minds generate when they read Java platform code - - an experience that Bloch believes can lead to more flexible and astute programming. Journals such as ACM Computing Reviews, Software Development Magazine, Slashdot, and JavaRanch have lauded the book, as have such respected authors of books on Java technology as Guy Steele, Gilad Bracha, Jeff Langr, and Ian Darwin.
Bloch, a former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, won the prestigious Jolt Award from Software Development Magazine for his book Effective Java Programming Language Guide. At Sun, he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
A great book with entertaining and brain bleeding puzzle solvings. I already read a sample chapter of the book and found it as fun as if like the first time I took the SCJP certification mock exams without any preparations. Ya, some SCJP tricky questions caught me by surprise.
What I will do now is to wait for the book to arrive at local bookshop.
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