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Summary: Java How To program
Review: Dear Smart People, Thank-you for your prompt reply. Tech support has contacted me. I had solved my own problem by starting the entire cd over. I thank you for writing what I actually think are the best programming books I have found to date. DeniseThis is a copy of letter I wrote Deitel & Deitel. I think the book is great for a nonprogrammer.
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Summary: A rich price for a poor textbook
Review: I am sorry to say that I was required to spend $68 this title. It gives examples without explaining all the terms and concepts involved, and it mixes together discussions of applets and stand-alone programs in a way I found confusing and illogical. Even the course instructor had a low opinion of the book and did not use it much in classroom teaching.
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Summary: Excellent Reference for the intermediate programmer
Review: This book is ideal for those with a little bit of programming knowledge. It has a vast selection of helpful examples, and avoids a lot of unnecessary waffle. Because its explanations are so short, if you are an absolute newcomer to programming, you may find it a bit inaccessible. I did for the first month of learning - turning instead to 'Java, an introduction to Computer Science and Programming' (which is great for the absolute novice). Since getting to grips with the basics, this book has never left my side. It is becoming increasingly valuable as time goes on (over 6 months later)! In short, it will grow with the learner, until you reach an advanced level of expertise.
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: I bought this book because it is required for a Java class. This book should be only 1/3 of its current thickness. The book must be written in a way that one Deitel wrote a paragraph once, the other Deitel wrote it a second time, then the two wrote the same thing together one more time. The whole book just repeats itself over and over again starting from the introduction. It will be a miracle that anyone can survive reading this book without being bore to death. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! Ask your professor to change to another book! You will thank me for this.
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Summary: Change the publisher!
Review: Plenty of good examples and many many challenging problems. I love it! BUT, every single page I turn falls apart too easily. I only had this book for two months and already it looks like a rag( I didn't even beat it ). They must change the publisher! Minus 2 stars!
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Summary: Java How to Program
Review: This is one of the best books I have read.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to Java
Review: Java How to Program is an excellent introduction to the Java language. The book is informative, very well laid out, and easy to follow. The book teaches by example with fun problems which encourage the reader to learn more.
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Summary: A Quick Path to Java Use
Review: I am a programmer who has been immersed in the procedural (and character-based) environment for seventeen years. I wanted to impart my personal experience in using this book. I knew I wanted to update my skills and I wanted to start with Java. Fortunately for me I was able to land a software contract job to develop a Java based application. Unfortunately for me, I knew very little about Object-Oriented programming and nothing about GUI components (and absolutely nothing about Java or C). By studying this book for a few weeks on my own part-time I was able to learn OOP and the Java environment well enough to start writing the code to develop this application. After about 6 weeks of coding I have learned a tremendous amount and now have a working knowledge of Java. I constantly use the book as a reference. If it were not for the book I could not have come close to being able to get this done. The end result is that I was able to put the lessons and text to immediate use, which was absolutely essential to me and the completion of the project. The customer is very happy with the result and I am happy with the knowledge I gained. I think the book covered all the basics very well, even for an Object-Oriented neophyte like myself.
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Summary: Needed: a user-friendly approach to Java and others.
Review: The bipolar opinions of this book reflects a chasm between experienced programmers and everyone else. For those with years of programming, the Deitel text is probably God's gift. For everyone else, Satan couldn't design a better torment for all who have lost hope in figuring out what programming entails. As a student in a Java course, I found this text inaccessible. There is no introductory chapter that goes into the fundamentals of programming: the importance of initialization, why values must be declared and how they are done so, the rationale behind subroutines, the principles of developing them, and why they need to appear in a certain order. The chapters do not get to the point of each topic. Instead, they but bombard the reader with technical verbiage: The rule seems to be to avoid ten-cent words where fifty-dollar ones will do. The Deitels are to Java programming what Parsons is to sociology--verbose and evading whatever point is to be made. It seems that these problems are common to most so-called introductory books to programming. The sneer of one reviewer about those who found the text inaccessible reflects the elitist--and unprofessional--attitude of all too many programmers toward beginners and nonspecialists alike. Programming is a useful tool and needs to be learned by many who are not specialists in the field. At the same time, there are too few programmers who know how to teach. The Deitel text reflects this lack.
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Summary: Weak in details
Review: This is a good introduction to Java, but don't expect to learn much about any of the advanced topics listed in the index. The chapter on RMI, for example, has more about GUI development then RMI in it. It seems the authors wanted to at least list all the key buzz words, even though they did not really have anything to say about some of them. This is a good book if you know nothing about Java or programming.
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