Maurice Naftalin

A useful overview of the collections classes, with a fairly good introduction to Generics. Not as much depth as would have been useful, and the worked examples for Generics were somewhat too simplistic - the interesting complexity occurs with real-world data structures and covariant generics, which were not really covered. A strange combination of subjects, too - the first half of the book is readable as an introduction to Generics, the second is more useful as a reference on the Collections classes.… (mehr)