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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: If I didn't have a professor that was so detailed this book would have me totally lost. Their explanations seem to fall short half the time. Becuase this book is so poor I'm in the process of finding another Beginning Java book to fill in the details. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Review: If I didn't have a professor that was so detailed this book would have me totally lost. Their explanations seem to fall short half the time. Becuase this book is so poor I'm in the process of finding another Beginning Java book to fill in the details. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: If you are new to computer programming and wish to learn Java, this is the book.
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Summary: An excellent book for the beginners.
Review: It is an excellent book for the beginner; either a CS major or a self-paced learner. As long as you don't forget to concentrate on "Problem Solving by Abstraction" rather than trying to write a program in JAVA, this is the place to start. I found "Simply Scheme" was a very interesting source for abstract reasoning. Overall, "Java for Students" threaded the OOP well throughout the book.
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Summary: Best "Introduction to Java" book
Review: The number 1 ranked university in Turkey has selected this book for an Undergrad 1st year Java course. This book is excellent, not confusing and intenden to teach something. Forget all other commercial "Teach Yourself in X day" books. If you want to learn Java, buy this book.
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Summary: Didactically superb. Says HOW to and WHY so.
Review: The sequence of how concepts are introduced is a most clever choice. This avoids situations where teachers trying to answer persevering student's questions would normally have to say "...eeh, rather involved, you won't understand yet, eeh, maybe we shall encounter this sometime in an upcoming chapter".
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Summary: Full of Unnecessary Mistakes
Review: This book is not well written. It has mistakes throughout its content. It uses concepts before they are fully introduced. It is very confusing on many of the issues. It confuses much more than it teaches.
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Summary: Excellent for Beginners
Review: This book is perfect for my students. It presents the concepts in small simple steps. It introduces graphics early on so that the students can appreciate their work. Events are covered early on too so that they can create interactive software. (This first edition covers Java 1.0 event model. The second edition -- sold in Europe is even better -- it covers the Java 1.1 & 1.2). Objects and inheritance are covered in a timely manner. My students find this book clear and straight forward. By the end of the book all major features are covered -- including threads and exceptions. This book is not a complete reference book and is better for it. Once my students understand what's going on I send them to reference books to find out all the intimate details. This book is just right for beginning high school students with no programming experience. Job well done. PS -- if anyone is interested I have lecture notes and theory quizzes that I could share with others.
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Summary: A well written book
Review: This book is very well written, easy to hunderstand, and it is an excellent way to learn Java. The only problem with this book is that some of the new Classes are not covered (e.g. Swing). But if you have never programmed before this is a good choice.
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