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Summary: The Complete Book of Programming
Review: Let me begin by saying that I consider the Deitel series of books to be an important contribution in the field of programming education.This book, as do their other books, does not just teach you Java, but programming concepts applicable and transferable to nearly any language out their today. Many here have complained that they were confused by OOP concepts beginning in Chapter 7. For a novice programmer, that is not uncommon. These are, at once, easy and difficult concepts. As a supplement, I would recommend Bruce Eckel's excellent book, Thinking In Java. Many people I know have had OOP concepts clarified by this book. If I have one complaint about the Deitel books it is that the exercises are sometimes too mathematical oriented. There are several, early on, that use linear regression. However, the exercises are meant to make you think and you will not complete many quickly. Strongly on the plus side of this book is that it gets you to use the GUI classes early on. Many books do not give them their due and, as a result, valuable knowledge is lost. This is a powerful teaching book. If you do get through its pages, you will be a strong programmer (not just a Java programmer) and will have a great foundation for anything that may come along.
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Summary: verbose garbage
Review: I don't understand how the authors expect you to learn Java when most of the code for their examples involve only GUI. Doesn't anyone else find it ironic that a book about an OO language, which is supposed to allow one to reuse code, is repetitive in code and writing style? Avoid this book (and all other Deitel books) if you can.
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Summary: 3/2 of this book is informative
Review: this book is ok till 7th chapter, after 7 ,chapters are getting too complicated,i mean what the f.. are these authors talking about and why dont they just explain them in a simple way?
there are lots of examples however!! yea if u can understand, i mean u will really need to spend lots of time on learning the examples, in brief deitel do not know how to really write a book,common fix the chapters from 7!! i also have 2nd edition Walter savitch ;really good compare to deitel
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Summary: Terrible
Review: Deitel's How NOT to Program books should be avoided by all readers, unless they want to read verbose, repetitive, unclear junk.
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Summary: poor organised , the example codes are too complicated
Review: The author of the example codes just always think of nice GUI. 70%-80% of code in each sample program is only for GUI but have no relationship with the concept it's actually talk about. Worse more, the book always mix lots of concept into a single chapter. For example, for the chapter of "METHOD" , it also talk about layout manager, object,applet,event handler,Swing component,etc. What's this chapter actually talk about, merely "METHOD"?
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Summary: Review on Vth edition of this book
Review: I was one of the technical reviewers for the Vth edition of this book. This book is meant not only for novice programmers and college students, but also for experienced programmers. It covers all core aspects of Java and introduces the reader to OO-style programming from a Java perspective in an incremental fashion consistently throughout the text. Each example is fully explained with output demonstrations, line-by-line source and API explanation. The book also covers good Java development and design practices e.g. SW Engineering Tips, Performance Tips, Design Patterns. The Vth Edition of this book covers JDK 1.4 release from Sun. It follows the same consistent approach from IVth edition to explain new features newly introduced in JDK 1.4 including Preferences API, non-blocking I/O. This book will be a great learning tool for both people just getting into Java OR for those transtitioning over to the latest version of Java from earlier versions of Sun JDK.
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Summary: Good Job but certain things made too complicated
Review: The book is titled Java: How to Program, hence it is for Java programmers who are in beginner to intermediate phases in Java programming. The book starts off on a good note with swing components discussed right in the second chapter. The later chapters till Chapter 7 are pretty much the same like any other programming book which talks about the syntax of language, data types defined, arrays, functions (methods here).
Chapter 8 thru the end chapter is where is gets a little bit more complicated. The authors have done a "strictly ok" job in keeping things very simple yet covering the details. The book has its own classes they have defined which they use in all their programs. It seems alright when certain classes are used in the other programs, but at certain time you get confused when the author instantiates a class in a program at end of chapter which is written way back at start of the chapter or even earlier!! The result is a lot of waste of time flipping pages back and forth (esp Chap. 16 Files and Streams). The examples should have been kept simple with less complications and plethora of pre-defined classes.
I give this book 3 star rating.
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Summary: Ehh...
Review: This book is a double-edged blade. On one hand, it's geared toward beginners. It's terrible as a reference, but pretty good for stepping people through the beginnings of programming with java. However, it extensively uses UML, and I think it's a safe assumption that most people who don't know Java, also don't know UML. Looking at UML diagrams can prove to be extremely frustrating for a beginner. I think if the UML were not there, I would recommend this book to any beginner. If you know UML, or if you're willing to skip the UML parts, then you can still learn fairly well from this book. Do not buy it as a reference book though, you'll be very disapointed. The included CD comes with a neat IDE though, so that's nice.
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Summary: Half good, half bad
Review: The first 13 chapters are fantastic. I advise anyone who has no previous knowledge of Java to read these 13 chapters.
After that, things kind of get messy. Some chapters are not explained well, and no enough exercises are found.
Some excercices in the book are to tough to do. Some of them require knowledge of topics found in future chapters.
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Summary: buy it.. buy two it'll be twice as good...
Review: Well well worth every penny. I use this book at school and at work. A great book for beginners and those that wish to use it as a desk reference. Plus java is lot better with an IDE, and forte (which included on the CD) is great. At over a thousands pages this book covers a lot of material.
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