Re:Humble Tech Book Bundle: Head First 2024 by O'Reilly
by kaladin-jasnah on Sunday August 18, 2024 @10:11PM
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I am a fan of the style. While not all of it was useful, in middle school I self-studied Java and the first book I used was Java for Everyone by Horstmann but this was what I used afterwards. The unseriousness of the writing style makes it easier to digest information and I felt it had a wide scope of information (IIRC, it covered servlets, Swing, networking, and multithreading).
So if you like reading and want a crash course on a bunch of frameworks, languages, etc, I'd buy the series. If you want to deep dive into something, look for the specialist author in that framework, language, etc.
That said, head first design patterns saved my bacon when I was studying for my first job out of college