Guys

Can I learn java 8 directly ?

Or do I need to learn java7 before

Any books that help with java8 for beginners

(I know a bit of java, but not enough of java7)

You can learn Java 8 directly

but even better, learn Clojure 😉

@suryapjr I found https://www.manning.com/books/java-8-in-action pretty good for getting up to speed on all the new streams/functional stuff in Java 8.

I don't recall there being much new to learn in Java 7... the try/resources feature, the nio library stuff... what else, anyone?

Strings in switch statements.

You can catch multiple exceptions in one statement

@sveri Yeah, but hardly ground-breaking. The try-with-resources stuff has had a real impact on how Java code can be written.

Thats true, just wanted to add that 🙂