I am a student of Information Systems Science and few weeks ago got my first job as a software developer (Java). During college courses I often wondered how the courses and textbooks would actually map to real life work as a professional programmer.Now that I have some experience as a new pro, I know that many books and courses just don't deliver as far as real work is concerned. But I noticed that there were couple of books...
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This is an excellent second book on C++ or Java. Although I was an experienced Fortran programmer, I needed to learn C++ in a hurry for a career change. I read Kernighan & Ritchie, another book (which I never look at) and this one. I'm constantly referring back to this book in my work. It is strong on OO concepts, and good programming practices. It even shows you work arounds that allow you to emulate OO Java features...
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Useful for its comparison of how OOD models are translated into C++ and Java. An okay book for developers who have had some experience of OOD and C++ or Java development. However, for the experienced designer/developer there are better books that deal with OOD/UML and C++/Java separately (authors that come to mind are Fowler, Gamma et al, Meyers, Murray, Booch, Rumbaugh and, of course, Stroustrup)
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