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Summary: Awesome book for understanding OOP
Review: This book is what I've always looked for, it doesn't expect you to know anything about OOP or even programming. Step by step the author takes you into the concepts of OOP. There are no "hidden" steps, that you must understand without explanation, every construct that is used is explained when it's used, and the steps are small enought to give everyone the time to understand everything thoroughly. The book has always additional excercises for every chapter, that help you to retry the concepts you've learned. This is very helpful because you might have the feeling that you'd understand what you've read, but it might be that you just understood the example not the concept itself. So I can recommend this book to everyone who wants a real good start in Java and OOP. This book is not meant as a reference book, it's meant for teaching yourself and others in the basics of Java and OOP with the help of BlueJ.
Rating:
Summary: Awesome book for understanding OOP
Review: This book is what I've always looked for, it doesn't expect you to know anything about OOP or even programming. Step by step the author takes you into the concepts of OOP. There are no "hidden" steps, that you must understand without explanation, every construct that is used is explained when it's used, and the steps are small enought to give everyone the time to understand everything thoroughly. The book has always additional excercises for every chapter, that help you to retry the concepts you've learned. This is very helpful because you might have the feeling that you'd understand what you've read, but it might be that you just understood the example not the concept itself. So I can recommend this book to everyone who wants a real good start in Java and OOP. This book is not meant as a reference book, it's meant for teaching yourself and others in the basics of Java and OOP with the help of BlueJ.
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Summary: Excellent book but..............
Review: This is an excellent book learning OOP in Java. I am self learner, I found this book has good introduction to OOP concept early. What disappoint me was absence of answers to the chapter exercises which is very useful to check the answer to the exercises to enhance learning. Otherwise I would say the chapter exercises is slightly better than useless especially to those who has no 'teacher' to check the answer. The answer actually available online in the book's website but for teachers only and password protected. I don't understand why the answer to chapter exercises has to be a secret!!
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Summary: This text extends the Java paradigm like no other !
Review: This text is so refreshing. It is presented using a more contemporary
approach than any other text on the market. (Believe me I have seen
a lot of them) because its presentation is pure concept without
overburdening one with unnecessary details.Concepts are only introduced at a level necessary to understand the
task at hand and revisited later in different contexts to deepen one's
understanding. Project programs are relevant and many issues can be
learned from reading the source code. The authors have students
designing parts of programs from the first chapter. If you want to be a
professional programmer or a software engineer this book is for you ! The text is in tutorial style using the BlueJ IDE. The BlueJ IDE is
so visual and displays a UML like diagram representing classes
and relationships in the program projects. By using the BlueJ IDE
(included on the CD along with all the coding)
one can "feel" what it means to create an object, call a method, or pass
a parameter. One of the authors is a developer of the BlueJ IDE. One is taught how to structure a vaguely described problem into classes
and methods. The text even includes a complete case study where all
topics discussed earlier are revisited ...from application design through
design of class interfaces, to discussing many important functional
and non-functional characteristics and implementation details.
You will see reliability, data structures, class design, testing and
extensibility applied in a new context. Do all the exercises conscientiously and you will discover what I
am discovering......this textbook is worth its weight in gold. Enjoy !
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Summary: Simply brilliant
Review: To make it short: this is the best book I've seen so far if you want to understand what object oriented programming is about, and not just memorise the Java syntax.
The book really takes you through the process of developing applications, with great attention to detail in respect to object-oriented style, and you get the Java details, almost as an aside, automatically.
I love the fact that the book does not just present complete finsihed projects, but talks you through various stages of development, taking the magic out of software development.
This book is clearly for beginners, but it is so well written that even people who think they know how to do this stuff will find something worthwhile in it.
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