Question

I am looking for a book which teaches Java very fast. Basically I am a C++ programmer and do not need to know each and every aspect of programming. I am learning java for android apps development. A lot of books like thinking in Java, learning java and others suggested are pretty big and I want something small to get me going.
A website like http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ for java also can be helpful. please answer ASAP.

Answer 1

I love to think of the javadoc as the equivalent of cplusplus.com. The comments on standard classes are much more detailed than stl comments are (and the code is a lot easier to read, too)

Personally I’d recommend just reading a tiny bit of literature and then using an IDE that provides really quick access to code and comments for any callable method (almost all do if you link sources and javadoc). Usually they provide greate usage exmaples and the code itself teaches best practices and proper design.

Unlinke for C / C++ I don’t think using an IDE is much of a problem. Javac hides everything anyway and there is not much to know about something like linking unless you use a lot of libraries and enter “jar hell”. But even then there is nothing to be learned by compiling from the shell that might help.

Build scripts to use will most probably ant or maven and both are a lot more high-level than Makefiles. While I’d really recommend never to rely on an IDE for C++, I’d totally do so for java.