Book description
"Every programming language has its quirks. This lively book reveals oddities of the Java programming language through entertaining and thought-provoking programming puzzles."
--Guy Steele, Sun Fellow and coauthor of The Java (TM) Language Specification
"I laughed, I cried, I threw up (my hands in admiration)."
--Tim Peierls, president, Prior Artisans…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Java Puzzlers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This tour of programming is a humorous reminder that we should always question our assumptions.
This book presents example after example of very simple Java programs all of which behave differently than you expect. It's both humbling and so provocative that you have to go into an editor and see if their claims are true.
From Christian's list on reads with your hands on the keyboard.
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