Re: Java and OO Concepts

James Perkins skrev:

I've been reading Joshua Bloch's "Effective Java, Second Edition". I'm at
the generics chapter and it's great so far. I have learned way more from
this book than I did from any other. Some of the other books I have read
taught me the basics, but this is more showing me why than how. The how is
usually the easiest part :-

Glad to hear :) Sorry if I misremembered your level - it is a great book but not for newcomers to a given subject (I think).

If I recall correctly it doesn't go into how to design with polymorphic code, hence the suggestion.

I have done a little bit with anonymous classes in Swing, but that's about
it.

They are great for bringing code pieces ignorant of each other together. Wrote some stuff the other day which my Java+Cobol colleague said "This is something you cannot do in cobol" (haul code over somewhere else and make it do things based on information here as I understood it)