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Summary: This book deserves a MINUS 5 stars
Review: I am a Sun Certified Java Developer. I am looking for a good Java Design book. I thought this book will provide me what I need. Too bad. This book is not for professional. It is designed for kids and should come with crayons. First, the format: the book uses a big font, left margin takes 1/3 of the page space, the paragraphs are spacious, some of the figures are hand-drawn and spacious. Second, the content: it has five chapters. Chapter one is about design by example. Chapter two is about composition and inheritance. Chapter three is about interface. Chapter four is about thread. And chapter five is about nofitication. All these chapters have no purposes and go nowhere. Another annoyance is the scissor symbol used for Java snippets. It is used at the beginning and ending of every class in the page. The authors think you, the readers, can not tell where the Java code starts and ends and where the Java class starts and ends. The book covers says " Covers Threads, Inner Classes, Swing and EJB...". I looked from cover to cover and had not found where the book talks about Inner Classes, Swing, and EJB. Over all, I will NOT take this book even it IS FREE. It does not worth a penny. It deserves a minus 5. Amazon did not provide the selection for a minus or zero star, so I select one star to mean a MINUS 5 star.
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Summary: Don't buy this book for a penny
Review: I bought this book because it has many 5 stars. I am a Sun Certified Java Developer. I read through the book for about four hours. This book uses a big font, a lot of space. The left margin takes 1/3 of the page space. The scissor symbol that is used to designate the Java snippet is disturbing b/c it is not only used where the Java snippet is, but it is used at the beginning and ending for every class in the page. The author treats you as you don't know where the Java code starts and ends and where each class starts and ends. The book contains many hand-written figures. The format of the book (Font, figures, space, and margin) is like story books for kids. The content of the book is very general. Charlie's Charters and Zoe's Zone are two examples used through out the book while one is sufficient. It's too bad that this book did not come with crayons. I won't buy this book for a penny as it just wastes my time. This book does not deserve a positive number for star. I'm looking for a negative number for the star, but there is no negative number or zero. So, I'll select a positive number one. This is meant to be a negative five (-5) stars.
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Summary: Important material, dry presentation
Review: I find the material covered in this book to be very important. Unfortunately, the presentation is extremely boring, dry, and repetitive. I'm giving it two stars only because there seems to be a general lack of good books on proper software design using java. Otherwise, I'd have given it a single star.
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Summary: Immediately useful
Review: I was able to apply the things I learned immediately to my programming tasks at hand.
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Summary: Pretty good book, a little expensive
Review: Good OO concepts, but the book could be condensed into a much thiner and less expensive one. I didn't like the hand-written design sketches. The Author sells Together/J, there is no excuse for providing the readers with well formatted, UML based drawings. Unless the author thinks that hand-written sketches are more "charming"...
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Summary: How does it get 4 stars??
Review: If you know little bit of OO, this is not the book for you. This book takes pages after pages just to explain what "interface" and "polymorphism" is! I am sure you would expect way more from a book of this title and price.
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Summary: There are much better OO book available
Review: Poor writing and editing make this book very difficult to read! Uninspired coverage of OO design leaves me wondering where these 5-star ratings came from. More in-depth OO design articles can be found online.
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Summary: Gets Nowhere
Review: I think the five or four stars are by some one from prentice hall itself. This book tries to do OO, UML and Java, but gets no where. The flow is not maintained. If you know Java a bit, do not buy it. It is waste of money and time.
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Summary: Know Object Orientation in Java? DO NOT buy this book.
Review: I can't believe the reviews this book received on this list. I blasted through this book in a matter of days with zero idea where any of the five star reviews come from, let alone 4, or 3 stars.If you are a decent hacker in Java already, DONT buy this book, you'll waste your money like I did. It provides no 'secrets', is super lengthy without explaining anything difficult, and simply relates programming in Object Oriented environments in a way that I absolutely could not understand. Could be just me, but I found this book to be utterly worthless and am donating it to my fireplace for good consumption. Don't buy this book unless you haven't a clue what an 'interface' is, or what inheritance is/does/means, they spend FOREVER talking about this simple OO concept ;<. However, if you don't know OO, buy it I guess.
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Summary: Great book -- open my eyes to a new world of programming
Review: This is an excellent book. It contains detailed information on Object Oriented Design. It covers many situations and gives many examples. I have found the book somewhat difficult to understand, but it has been well worth the effort, because it has given me a whole new perspective on the value of Object Oriented Programming languages. I would however suggest that the book have a little list of acronyms used in the back. It would also have been helpful if it was stated somewhere that this list was available to someone completely new to the subject.
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