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Did anyone read this book? Any thoughts about it? I looked at it really quickly and it seems good, but I haven't read it and then used the knowledge. So how use

Did anyone read this book? Any thoughts about it? I looked at it really quickly and it seems good, but I haven't read it and then used the knowledge. So how useful is the actual knowledge itself in a practical context? Also, I would be curious to know if there is a 2017/18 version of it.

mtrn 9y ago
> Did anyone read this book? Just skimmed through a few pages, found a small name error: > Java millennium (Java ME) which is made to create Embedded Systems
- godelmachine 9y ago
  Thought Java ME stands for Java Micro Edition
  - ChristianGeek 9y ago
    It does. OP is saying that “Java Millenium” is an error.
vippy 9y ago
We're using Scala, other shops are using Haskell and Node. Many shops have micro-services. Some do not. APIs and security are a thing. Domain modeling and the creation of a ubiquitous language is a thing. Automated testing is still surprisingly bad (flaky tests are common and upstream disorganization can lead to man hours lost updating tests when upstream test data changes). The flamewar-inducing comment: managing state and inheritance patterns in object oriented systems kind of sucks. (I'm operating a reasonably high-level of abstraction; analytics, statistics, and modeling.)
noisem4ker 9y ago
I think it helps you gain a quick perspective on what's actually out there, especially in case you missed something in your curriculum. I personally found the Java EE chapter a better introduction than the official starting documentation from Oracle, with fewer buzzwords and more actual information. The Object orientation chapter feels a little out of place to me, though; hardly anyone with a degree in IT wouldn't know about it. Overall, not reference material but a good intro, although it's somewhat outdated and the fact it was put together from individual essays leaks through.

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Did anyone read this book? Any thoughts about it? I looked at it really quickly and it seems good, but I haven't read it and then used the knowledge. So how use

by mettamage 9y ago

mtrn 9y ago
> Did anyone read this book? Just skimmed through a few pages, found a small name error: > Java millennium (Java ME) which is made to create Embedded Systems
- godelmachine 9y ago
  Thought Java ME stands for Java Micro Edition
  - ChristianGeek 9y ago
    It does. OP is saying that “Java Millenium” is an error.
vippy 9y ago
We're using Scala, other shops are using Haskell and Node. Many shops have micro-services. Some do not. APIs and security are a thing. Domain modeling and the creation of a ubiquitous language is a thing. Automated testing is still surprisingly bad (flaky tests are common and upstream disorganization can lead to man hours lost updating tests when upstream test data changes). The flamewar-inducing comment: managing state and inheritance patterns in object oriented systems kind of sucks. (I'm operating a reasonably high-level of abstraction; analytics, statistics, and modeling.)
noisem4ker 9y ago
I think it helps you gain a quick perspective on what's actually out there, especially in case you missed something in your curriculum. I personally found the Java EE chapter a better introduction than the official starting documentation from Oracle, with fewer buzzwords and more actual information. The Object orientation chapter feels a little out of place to me, though; hardly anyone with a degree in IT wouldn't know about it. Overall, not reference material but a good intro, although it's somewhat outdated and the fact it was put together from individual essays leaks through.