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Summary: All your base are belong to us...
Review: Actual excerpts from the book
"This object has a readLine(), which can be use to read the user's input into a String variable" pg 244
"It assumes that interest in compounded annually." pg 268
"You will have do some planning and experimenting to determine what values to use for these coordinates." pg 274
"Exercise 5.8 a.7(int b. 30 long c. 14.0 double" pg 279 <-- What is that open parenthese doin' in there?
"Note here that when we want to retrieve "Wo" form str we specify its substring as indexes..." pg 362
"This program uses isEquals()..." pg 374 <-- Actually it doesn't.
"A class may be declared abstract even it contains no..." pg 381 <-- He's an expert on if statements
"After each die toss the appropriate counter will incremented." pg 415
Looks like Morelli wants to start his own Zero Wing catch phrase fad. For some reason I don't think they'll catch on quite as well. Hehehe! Everyone that has the book, check these out. They're all very true. By the way. This book is actually very useful at learning Java. There's about 500 pages of detail in 940 worth of space though. After the third attempt at going cover to cover I actually did it. And I'm a pretty good coder now.
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Summary: (Critics be shamed) Primer for All "OO" java wanna be's...
Review: Despite the other reviews, it's apparent others have not seen the learning light when they passed this book off as low rate. Critics who may brand this author with lengthy eloquence just don't want to know more than a nutshell of java. I am a web developer and a wanna be java programmer. In the last year I have looked at many a books, taken several intro courses from Sun, and others; they all have prepared me for where i am now, but I will have to say much of the journey has not been pleasurable learning. Many teach Java who are not well trained themselves. From the parts I have read in this book, it is an essential learning primer. Let me say, this book is pleasurable learning, from the couch to the Desktop. I recommend it to all levels of programmers. Even for just cognitive review...which we all need sometime in life. Cheers to Ralph Morelli.
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Summary: Great for beginners
Review: I disagree with the customer from Dayton Ohio about it not being suitable for beginners. I'm a beginning programmer. I've been using this book to teach myself Java. I find the book very helpful in laying the groundwork for understanding Java programming concepts. I'm looking forward to becoming a full-fledged Java programmer using Morelli's Java, Java, Java! The on-line resources are great!
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Summary: Wordy and Pooly Organized
Review: I do not recommend this book. I only continued to read it because it was assgined reading for the course. The content could have been covered in less than half the number of pages, and with greater clarity and organization. As a reference, the book was virtually useless. Information on important topics was scattered throughout, coalescing around case examples in various chapters. Certainly not worth the $70, or whatever price is being asked.
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Summary: Excellent book to understand OO concepts
Review: I think this a text for computer science students, so it explains a lot of basics. It is for those who want to understand "object-oriented" programming. If you are already familiar with "structured" programming, then buy this book just to understand what object orientation is. What I got most out of it is an extremely clear concept of Object Oriented design and programming.
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Summary: Excellent book to understand OO concepts
Review: I think this a text for computer science students, so it explains a lot of basics. It is for those who want to understand "object-oriented" programming. If you are already familiar with "structured" programming, then buy this book just to understand what object orientation is. What I got most out of it is an extremely clear concept of Object Oriented design and programming.
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: I thought that this book, contrary to other reviews, was extremely well organized and helpful in learning Java.
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Summary: College Student
Review: I was required to read chapters 0-8 and I don't care for this book very much. It was helpful in the class due to the instructer being a little wishy-washy in teaching the course. However, the "terms to know" listed at the end of each chapter, were not defined well within the chapter. Sometimes the terms weren't even defined or used in the chapter that it referenced. The examples were confusing, mixing Applets and Application information. I note that this may have been confusing because of the way the course was taught. There should be answers to the exercises at the end of each chapter not just the ones 'within' the chapter. The exercises with the answers were the most helpful. It would have been much more helpful to have the answers to the additional exercises, as well as having a glossery for all of the terms used. I will continue to need this book for the next course in succession to the one I just took. I am not looking forward to the next course, partly because the book is not very dependable in teaching the material. My Cyber-Pet never made it into existence in my world and the disk did not provide much help, at all, while taking this course. Overall, the book gives necessary information, but I don't see how a person who is trying to teach themselves can make use of this book. It was a struggle with College instruction. If you tried this book to learn Java/Object Oriented Programming, don't give up. I am sure the right book is out there to help the self-teachers. If you haven't baught this book yet, there are better ones out there, I am sure. Note:I did receive an A- in the class.
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Summary: A very good book
Review: I was surprised when I read the reviews, because I find the book exceptionally good. This book helped me pass the exam in programming. Our professor recommended us two books: Java, how to program from Deitel&Deitel and this book. I made a wrong decision. I bought Java, how to program. When I started reading it, I was getting nowhere. Then I decided to learn from this book. And it paid off. Our professor said too, that if he knew better he'd recommend us Morelli's book, because Deitel&Deitel talks about JOptionPane and everything while Morreli talks about concepts behind Java. It doesn't try to describe you everything Java can do like many books try, but instead teaches you about the basic things and gives you insight to what is possible with Java. And that's what's good about this book. You don't get lost in details but instead like the author says: it gives you the big picture!
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Summary: Not good for anyone interested in learning Java
Review: If reviewer number two hopes to become a Java programmer I would suggest a different book from which to learn from. This book is badly organized and offers little in good code examples from which to learn from. There is a mistake concerning classes and some of the code does not work. Online resources are poor.
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