Хотелось бы найти что-нибудь по Java, желательно посвежее, а то все что есть, уже сильно устарело, хотя сами по себе книги очень неплохие.

есть в наличии:
Addison Wesley - Java and JMX (2002)
Addison Wesley - Java Tutorial 3th Edition - A Short Course on the Basics (2000)
O'Reilly - JavaScript Pocket Reference 2nd Edition
JavaScript Bible 4th Edition
John Wiley & Sons - JavaScript Bible, 5th Edition
John Wiley & Sons - JavaScript in 10 Steps or Less
John Wiley & Sons - Making Use of JavaScript
Wrox Press - Beginning JavaScript. Second Edition
Pure JavaScript SE

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Начнем по порядку:
1. Какая Java (ME, SE, EE)?
2. На какую-то конкретную тему или вводные книги?
3. На русском или и английский подойдет?

На английском все-таки не подойдет, хотелось бы по-русски.

Задача стоит в том,чтобы реализовать на Java проект, написанный на С++ (порядка 10 тыс. строк) в порядке эксперимента (Java все -таки лучше работает с памятью) и оценить скорость. Проект представляет из себя небольшую СУБД, предназначенную в основном для полнотекстового поиска.

Изучать придется все, что есть, на Java опыта практически нет.

Ну насчет работы с памятью я бы поспорил, кто лучше работает... в умелых руках
Для начала, можно зайти на http://www.firststeps.ru. По Жаве там немного, но азы с примерами просмотреть можно.
Из книг могу посоветовать Джозеф Вебер - Технология Java. Сам по нему учился.
Из электронных вариантов, где описана работа по взаимодействию с БД да еще и на русском, встречал только "Технологии программирования на Java 2. Том 1."

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Robillard M.P. - Introduction to Software Design with Java

Springer, 2019
djvu, 302 pages, english
ISBN 978-3-030-24094-3



This textbook provides an in-depth introduction to software design, with a focus on object-oriented design, and using the Java programming language. Its goal is to help readers learn software design by discovering the experience of the design process. To this end, a narrative is used that introduces each element of design know-how in context, and explores alternative solutions in that context. The narrative is supported by hundreds of code fragments and design diagrams. The first chapter is a general introduction to software design. The subsequent chapters cover design concepts and techniques, which are presented as a continuous narrative anchored in specific design problems. The design concepts and techniques covered include effective use of types and interfaces, encapsulation, composition, inheritance, design patterns, unit testing, and many more. A major emphasis is placed on coding and experimentation as a necessary complement to reading the text. To support this aspect of the learning process, a companion website with practice problems is provided, and three sample applications that capture numerous design decisions are included. Guidance on these sample applications is provided in a section called “Code Exploration” at the end of each chapter. Although the Java language is used as a means of conveying design-related ideas, the book’s main goal is to address concepts and techniques that are applicable in a host of technologies. This book is intended for readers who have a minimum of programming experience and want to move from writing small programs and scripts to tackling the development of larger systems. This audience naturally includes students in university-level computer science and software engineering programs. As the prerequisites to specific computing concepts are kept to a minimum, the content is also accessible to programmers without a primary training in computing. In a similar vein, understanding the code fragments requires only a minimal grasp of the language, such as would be taught in an introductory programming course.

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Igor Livshin - Artificial Neural Networks with Java: Tools for Building Neural Network Applications

Apress, 2019
pdf, 575 pages, english
ISBN-10: 1484244206
ISBN-13: 978-1484244203



Use Java to develop neural network applications in this practical book. After learning the rules involved in neural network processing, you will manually process the first neural network example. This covers the internals of front and back propagation, and facilitates the understanding of the main principles of neural network processing. Artificial Neural Networks with Java also teaches you how to prepare the data to be used in neural network development and suggests various techniques of data preparation for many unconventional tasks. The next big topic discussed in the book is using Java for neural network processing. You will use the Encog Java framework and discover how to do rapid development with Encog, allowing you to create large-scale neural network applications. The book also discusses the inability of neural networks to approximate complex non-continuous functions, and it introduces the micro-batch method that solves this issue. The step-by-step approach includes plenty of examples, diagrams, and screen shots to help you grasp the concepts quickly and easily.

What You Will Learn:
- Prepare your data for many different tasks
- Carry out some unusual neural network tasks
- Create neural network to process non-continuous functions
- Select and improve the development model

Who This Book Is For:
- Intermediate Machine Learning and Deep Learning developers who are interested in switching to Java.

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