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This book looks really awesome and I want to follow along with it in Java. I don't have the money to buy the book currently being a university student. In the style of r/RandomActsOfPizza, would it be possible for someone to do a RandomActsofBook and buy this book for me? I could pay the money back to them in a couple of months or pay it forward...whichever they would prefer.

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I can get a copy for you. Let me know what email to send you the ebook. I only ask for 2 things. 1) try to complete as much of the book as you can (it’s 700 pages!), and 2) pay it forward when you have the means. Cheers!

Thank you so much. I am about to start working in july so will be sure to pay it forward once I get a little financially stable. I have some time to kill before that in which I plan to dive into this book. My email is: f"rishi25m{chr(64)}gmail{chr(46)}com" (This is the python3 fstring)

Sent you an email to make sure I got the right address. Please reply when you get a chance.

Sent you the download link. Let me know if you have any problems with downloading.

Hey can I buy the book through you? My card gets rejected, but I know my card is fine, it's the payment service issue. Yesterday I sent an email and a tweet[0] to the author, but he didn't reply. Basically, I want to pay you £36, you send me the pdf and buy it again. If you want to help me out, then send me an email. My address is in the profile.

[0]: https://twitter.com/pau1riddle/status/1116205409780600833

The book's code is implemented in Ruby, and the source is here, according to the author, around 6000 lines (haven't checked myself).

https://github.com/jcoglan/jit

If you'd really like to make a Java equivalent of any specific algorithm you can start even without a book.

I guess that anybody not versed in Ruby would first have to understand a lot of Ruby details first. The author mentions other efforts relatively similar to his, in other languages, like http://gitlet.maryrosecook.com/docs/gitlet.html which is node JavaScript.

I know the author has very graciously provided the source code. I would just like to read through the book to know what kind of reasoning exists behind each of the parts in the author's own words.

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