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Free download Free The Elements of Java(TM) Style (SIGS Reference Library) [Kindle Edition] from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link The Elements of Java Style, written by renowned author Scott Ambler, Alan Vermeulen, and a team of programmers from Rogue Wave Software, is directed at anyone who writes Java code. Many books explain the syntax and basic use of Java; however, this essential guide explains not only what you can do with the syntax, but what you ought to do. Just as Strunk and White's The Elements of Style provides rules of usage for the English language, this text furnishes a set of rules for Java practitioners. While illustrating these rules with parallel examples of correct and incorrect usage, the authors offer a collection of standards, conventions, and guidelines for writing solid Java code that will be easy to understand, maintain, and enhance. Java developers and programmers who read this book will write better Java code, and become more productive as well. Indeed, anyone who writes Java code or plans to learn how to write Java code should have this book next to his/her computer.Direct download links available for Free The Elements of Java(TM) Style (SIGS Reference Library) [Kindle Edition]
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A good coding standard should focus on advice that encourages the correct and consistent application of a language. The more widely-adopted a standard is, the more benefit. No less than the Java Language Specification acknowledges this by listing a limited set of naming and usage practices. While the JLS falls far short of establishing a complete coding standard, the naming conventions it established have alone been of great benefit to the Java community. The "Elements of Java Style" nicely fills the gap left by the JLS in other areas, although it too falls a little short in places--thus the 4 star rating instead of 5.I strongly suggest "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch as a companion to this book. Whereas the 108 rules in this book focus on style, format and many pearls of practical advice, "Effective Java" provides an excellent set of 57 rules that go much deeper and tackle more advanced aspects of writing correct and consistent code. The two books complement each other well.
Of the 108 rules, the most glaring technical error is rule #99 which promotes the use of the flawed double-check synchronization pattern. Ignore this rule.
The 108 rules are divided into six chapters as follows:
4 General Principles: While I would have added a few, the four here are quite sound.
4 Formatting Conventions: Programmers tend to get weird about code format. After long enough you realize any reasonable and consistently adhered to standard is fine, so just use this well-considered set.
23 Naming Conventions: These are of great benefit as they resolve the ambiguities left by the JLS. I especially like rule #12, "Join the vowel generation".
This book is the marriage of Rogue Wave Java coding standards with those of Scott Amber. Standards are formulated as brief rules with one or more paragraphs of explanation, illustration, and justification.The first part of the book is devoted to general principles. There are just a few of these. For example, "Do it right the first time," that is, follow standards whenever you write code, even "throw-away" code.
The second part is devoted to formatting conventions. These have to do with indentation, placement of openning and closing brackets, etc. I second the prohibition against hard tabs--use spaces instead. I've seen code written in an IDE that looks bizarre when viewed in a simple text editor like vi.
The third part is devoted to naming conventions. Good naming conventions make code more nearly self-documenting. An example from this part is "Capitalize only the first letter in acronyms." For example, use "loadXmlDocument()" instead of "loadXMLDocument()," where the obvious exception is constant names which should contain only capital letters.
Java facilitates a deeper integration of code and documentation (via JavaDoc) than most programming languages. The fourth part is devoted to documentation conventions--both JavaDoc and internal comments. If you have ever struggled with the wording of a JavaDoc comment you will appreciate the authors' no-nonsense advice.
The fifth part is devoted to programming conventions. An example from this part is "Do not synchronize an entire method if the method contains significant operations that do not need synchronization," that is, use a synchronized block for the appropriate sequence of statements rather than synchronizing the whole method.
The sixth part is devoted to packaging conventions.