Guy L. Steele Books

Are you seeking a deeper understanding of the Java™ programming language to write clearer, more robust, and reusable code? This highly anticipated second edition brings together seventy-eight essential rules of thumb, offering best-practice solutions for everyday programming challenges. Thoroughly updated to reflect Java SE 5 and SE 6 features, it explores new design patterns and language idioms, helping you leverage features like generics, enums, annotations, and autoboxing. Each chapter comprises several standalone essays that provide specific advice, insights into Java subtleties, and excellent code examples. Comprehensive descriptions illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why. Highlights include new coverage of generics, enums, annotations, autoboxing, the for-each loop, varargs, and concurrency utilities, alongside updated techniques on classic topics such as objects, classes, libraries, methods, and serialization. The book also emphasizes avoiding traps and pitfalls associated with commonly misunderstood aspects of the language, focusing on fundamental libraries like java.lang, java.util, and, to a lesser extent, java.util.concurrent and java.io. Ultimately, this edition presents the most practical and authoritative guidelines for writing efficient, well-designed programs.

Intended for programmers interested in programming in C++, this C reference covers two important developments: the ISO C Amendment 1 (1994), which specifies facilities for writing portable, international programs in C; and a discussion of how to write C programs that are compatible with C++.