Head first

This post is about Head First JSP Servlet book. This is not a review, just my experience.

Recently I felt the urge to learn some jsp/servlet. Though I have worked on jsps and servlets for quite a few months, but I never knew why I wrote any particular jsp code. If something didn't work, I'd google and find a work around and copy the code snippet. And, as long as it worked, I felt ok, my boss felt ok since that is what matters for business: whatever mess it is, it should work! But couple of weeks back I thought of reassessing myself. I had to pity myself for all my ignorance :( So that was the reason I felt the need to earn some jsp expertise. (Maybe this itself can make another post)

I was aware of Head First books. Looking at those books, It never appeared to be technically serious to me. But being one of Kathy Sierra fan (too bad that she had to stop blogging), I thought of giving a try. OMG! I finished that within two weeks. I never expected a technical book to be so engaging. It is one of the books, I enjoyed most. It's fun from first to last page. Can you believe you get to read F-word in a jsp book! And that too with an explanation why F-word is not bad always. I really liked the book, and also I believe I learned quite a few things from it. Only thing what I felt, as a reference this book may not be appropriate, but for learning this is the book to go for!