Janice J. Heiss has conducted a roundup of sorts in which she interviewed 11 of the top Java developers, each of whom has advice to offer aspiring students of the development art. She provides a helpful tag line for each subject's contribution that acts as an index to the feature.

Advice from 11 of the top Java developers

• Joshua Block: "Write lots of code. Have fun with it!" Full interview; Effective Java (2nd Edition)

• Tor Norbye: "Learn to use your tools. And I don't mean just enough to get by. I mean really learn how to use your tools." Full interview; Tor Norbye\'s blog

• Chet Haase: "Don't use line numbers. Don't put your entire application in one method." Full interview; Chet Haase\'s blog

• Ben Galbraith: "There will always be opportunities for great engineers but ... I think the number of these opportunities will shrink as other, less technical personnel play larger roles in the software-development process, using more productive, higher-level tools and frameworks than we have used in the past." Full interview; Ben Galbraith\'s blog

• Masood Mortazavi: "Millions of people have been employed because someone at Sun Microsystems invented Java." Full interview; Masood Mortazavi\'s blog

• Raghavan Srinivas: "Don't be overwhelmed by the language or the platform." Full interview; Raghavan Srinivas\'s blog

• Cay Horstmann: "When students first see the API with thousands of classes, they despair. First, don't panic." Full interview; Cay Horstmann\'s blog

• Arun Gupta: "I really recommend that new users try out different IDEs and pick one of their choice." Full interview; Arun Gupta\'s blog

• Rick Cattell: "Good technology is only 10% of success" Full interview; Rick Cattell\'s home page

• Chuk-Munn Lee: "Choose an area of your immediate need." Full interview; Troubleshooting and the Java SE 6 Platform (article)

• Tom Ball: "Programming is still a craft." Full interview; Tom\'s blog

Heiss also includes several other links that student developers are sure to find useful:

• New to Java Programming Center

• Student Developers - Overview

• The Java Tutorials

• Tutorials and Online Training

• Java SE Training [...read more...]
  
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