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Summary: informative and helpful but needs editing
Review: A lot of good info. Covers both the mechanics and conceptual aspects of Visual Age. I got a feeling that I could understand what I was making, make intelligent choices and resolve whatever problems came up. Scott is the guru of VisualAge.What being said the book has an incredible amount of filler. It really needs a good editing. Particularly bad was the amount of really trivial information. For example on a text box named "Class Name" there is no need to explain that the class name goes here. This tendency to focus on the trivial flawed an otherwise excellent book.
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Summary: Not too light, not too deep, just right
Review: After drowning in click by rote IBM tutorials, this book was exactly what I was looking for! A tour of the Visual Age tool followed by excellent discussion and examples of design techniques, make this book a truly effective way to get rolling with Visual Age. This book assumes you already know Java and something about JavaBeans and doesn't waste time holding your hand on the basics. The examples move fast and can be hard to recreate on your own, but the source code is included if needed. As a manager of Java developers, this book was a great way for me to get up to speed on how Visual Age influences the architecture and design style of my team. I am going to recommend it to all of my new developers. I didn't have any problem with typos. I hope the author puts out a edition for Visual Age version 4.0
Rating:
Summary: Not too light, not too deep, just right
Review: After drowning in click by rote IBM tutorials, this book was exactly what I was looking for! A tour of the Visual Age tool followed by excellent discussion and examples of design techniques, make this book a truly effective way to get rolling with Visual Age. This book assumes you already know Java and something about JavaBeans and doesn't waste time holding your hand on the basics. The examples move fast and can be hard to recreate on your own, but the source code is included if needed. As a manager of Java developers, this book was a great way for me to get up to speed on how Visual Age influences the architecture and design style of my team. I am going to recommend it to all of my new developers. I didn't have any problem with typos. I hope the author puts out a edition for Visual Age version 4.0
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Summary: Thorough introduction to VisualAge for Java
Review: As a novice VisualAge for Java user, I have found this book very useful. It is well structured and covers most of the features of VA Java. The accompanying CD that contains VA Java professional edition gives the book extra value. On the negative side, I find too many typos. Also I have found some of the examples incomplete. It would also have been an idea to publish a page with corrections. But overall, this is probably the best book on VisualAge for Java available today.
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Summary: Best Source For Exam
Review: As a Sun Certified Programmer,I recommend this book for Visual Age Java exam,
even for version4.
Yesterday, I passed the exam with 90%.
I like this a book.
Thanks to Scott Stanchfield and thanks John Wiley & Sons.
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Summary: Excellent material, well presented
Review: As an aging hacker who cut my programming teeth on Lisp machines, AI and Smalltalk, I appreciate the authors' almost fanatical embrace of the concept of a well-integrated development environment. Now that we are finally beginning to recover from the atrocity of C++, with VisualAge we have an IDE that starts to measure up to the Lisp development environments of the early 1980's. That isn't to say that the book is just a philosophical treatise in favor of IDEs; in fact, only a few pages explicitly extol the virtues of VisualAge as an IDE. Instead, the enthusiasm of the authors makes the book an enjoyable read as it does a thorough job of covering the basics of the VAJava environment for beginners, as well as giving lesser known tips for experienced developers. If there has to be a gripe about the book, it is the relatively large number of typographical errors, but I don't find this minor point to be a significant detractor from an otherwise excellent book. Its 1000+ pages, along with the full professional edition of VisualAge for Java, all for under.. (price).., puts this book on my all time bargains list.
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Summary: A must have for VisualAge users
Review: At last there is a book that explains all the features and facilities of VisualAge for Java. Scott Stanchfield, who has been a major contributor to the VisualAge for Java user community for years has now come out with a book that tops it off. It's an obvious choice for new users since it comes with a free copy of the Pro version for far less cost than the software alone. For the seasoned user, the book contains much valuable information that is absent in IBM's documentation. The only unfortunate thing about this book is that there was no edition back when Version 1 was released.
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Summary: Too Many Typos!!
Review: Better than those PDF files that come with VAJ. But there are too many, way too many typos!!
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Summary: Good Book, Terrible development environment.
Review: Effective Visualage for Java covers well all the aspects of this incredibly terrible IDE. If you have to use VisualAge, this is the book to get you started. How a great programming language like Java could get shackled with such a deplorable development tool is beyond me.
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Summary: Good Book, Terrible development environment.
Review: Effective Visualage for Java covers well all the aspects of this incredibly terrible IDE. If you have to use VisualAge, this is the book to get you started. How a great programming language like Java could get shackled with such a deplorable development tool is beyond me.
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