Douglas_Knight comments on Open Thread, Jun. 15 - Jun. 21, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 18 June 2015 01:58:15AM 0 points [-]

If by "reasonably good" you mean at the 50th percentile of textbooks, sure, it's fine. But textbooks that are actually good are rare. And they are valuable. It is worth your time to work through the book that I linked. It would be more valuable to do it before reading about java.

Comment author: Elo 18 June 2015 02:06:58AM *  0 points [-]

By reasonably good I mean - good enough for now.

According to the table of contents I already understand up to around chapter 40 of 52 of that book. And I was aiming to learn Java because of its relevance to android studio.

which is coincidentally where I am reading through on the java trail right now