Thinking in Java: The Definitive Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in the Language of the World-Wide Web, 3rd Edition

In Thinking in Java, Third Edition, Bruce Eckel teaches Java one simple step at a time, with hundreds of new, self-contained example programs that illuminate every key technique for building today's hottest applications. This book's previous edition earned the industry's most prestigious awards, including the Software Development Jolt Cola award and the JavaWorld Reader's Choice Award. This edition has been fully updated for Java 1.4, with a new extended coverage of multithreading, and many other major improvements.