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Title:
The Elements of Java StyleAuthor:
VariousISBN:
0 521 77768 2Publisher:
Cambridge University PressPages:
128ppPrice:
£8-95Reviewer:
Francis GlassborowSubject:
javaAppeared in:
12-3This is a very small format book (each page is about a third
of the area of a page of A4 (Overload, new format C Vu). The main
text takes 93 pages. That is followed by eight pages listing the 108
style guidelines that the main text covered in more detail, and then
there is a glossary and index. Almost half the entries in the index
refer to the glossary.
None of the above would matter if the guidelines sparkled. However just let me take one at random.
62 Explain local variable declarations with an end-line comment.Not exactly innovative stuff. Then two guidelines on, I find:64 Label closing braces in highly nested control structuresWell if you are going to nest them deeply, I suppose it makes sense to label them. However, I think a much better guideline would be 'Avoid nesting control structures.' Any experienced programmer will tell you that nesting control structures is a recipe for buggy code.I think that is enough. Keep your money, if this book tells you anything you do not already know then you need it to invest in learning to program.