Java Puzzlers  (English, Paperback, Bloch Joshua)

Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, And Corner Cases is a book that is helpful for java programmers, as it helps in understanding common mistakes that people make while coding and ways to overcome them.

Summary Of The Book

The book Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, And Corner Cases is targeted towards the Java community, helping coders to better themselves by providing a number of puzzles pertaining to the language.

In this book, the authors inform the java programmer about the common pitfalls that may be present in this language. Apart from that, the readers are also given an unbiased review of the language. The puzzles present in this book are highly engrossing for the coder, allowing them to have fun as well as better themselves as coders.

The book contains more than 100 puzzlers, which are very challenging as well as practical. The puzzles present in this book are in the form of code, which seems to perform a particular task, but actually does something very different. The job of the reader is to determine the functioning of the piece of code prior to running it.

Some of the topics covered in this book include Loopy Puzzlers, Puzzlers with Character, Expressive Puzzlers, and Library Puzzlers. In short, this book is highly recommended for java programmers, whether novice or advanced.

About The Authors

The author of this book, Neal Gafter, is a renowned .Net programmer, who is presently working for Microsoft. Although he works as a .Net developer, the author displays keen interest towards programming using the Java language.

He completed his doctoral degree from the University of Rochester. The author has also developed the Google Calendar, and has been involved with compilers for more than 30 years.

The co-author of this book, Joshua Bloch, is a renowned engineer of software, who has worked for Google in the past, apart from other top-notch companies such as Transarc and Sun Microsystems.

Apart from this book, the author has also written Effective Java: Programming Language Guide and contributed towards Java Concurrency in Practice. In the year 2001, the author had been awarded with the Jolt Award for his book Effective Java.

He completed his bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, studying Computer Science and his doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University, in Computer Science. On the 3rd of August 2012, the author said that he would resign from Google.