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Summary: A book for lazy teachers
Review: This book is for professors who are too lazy to develop quality examples and problems for their students. Just because a book has a teaching edition and small assignments is no reason to stick students with this terrible book.
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Summary: Absolutely terrible book
Review: I really disliked the organized of the book. It is written as if objects were an after thought, has very strange explanations, and poor quality, overly simple examples. The "Common Programming Errors", "Good Programming Practice" and "Tips" are silly, trivial and clutter what little logic the chapters have to offer. The authors teaching philosophy seems to be: Throw in every programming tip anyone ever thought of. This is just another cookie-cutter book with a new cover. At 61.00 USD, this clone is a real rip off.
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Summary: 5 stars ???????????
Review: These 4 and 5 star reviews have got to be fake. No serious programmer could give the poorly written explanations and silly tips in this book even an average rating.
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Summary: Among the worst Java books
Review: I would love to see the code written by those people who think this book is "great". Its amazing how low some peoples standards are.
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Summary: Excellent book covering a very complex subject...
Review: Java is an extremely powerful but extremely complex language. The online doc gives basic information, but its huge feature set is very difficult to dig through and the pitfalls and nuances of the individual classes are often learned only by many trials and error. This book gives the professional user a handle on Java, and pointers on how to sift through the superabundance of classes to choose the most useful for particular projects. The detailed and well-explained examples illustrate many fine points of java that are not intuitively obvious. It is true that this is not a book to teach you object oriented programming. But that is not its purpose. It does succeed very well in making the complexity of Java accessible to the already trained developer.
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Summary: A very efficient Java book for all level Java programers !
Review: Indeed, I've had the first and second edition of this book too. The best two things about this book are the clear architecture and those very usefull examples which cover almost most of the parts. I can easy to find what I'm looking for and learn what I want to know as always.
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Summary: An excellent resource a self-paced Java programming class
Review: The book, like other Java books like it, has a good description of standard Java classes. It goes further by using those classes in a structured manner to further clarify the subject. The examples are clearly explained.
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Summary: Just a first-glance prieview
Review: I had a quick look and I first thought "God that looks tough" but after having a quick flick through the text is quite well written, and the program examples are well explained in good detail. The software bundle looks very impressive. As a student learning java I think this book was a very good buy, if a little expensive.
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Summary: Best book on Java I've read; and I have read a bunch.
Review: I have been reading several other Java books and this is the only one that provides a complete step-by-step tutorial on good programming habits, common pitfalls, and solid Java education. I have read the Nutshells, Java Complete, Horton's Beginning Java, etc. The Deitel's are real teachers. They were smart to use Swing instead of AWT right off the bat. Looking forward to their Advanced Java book in late 2000.
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Summary: Absolutely great book
Review: I really liked the way you have organized each chapter -brief introduction; very clear explanations; easy to understand examples; explanation of the codes in the examples and more importantly the concluding section containing the summary and other details. While your sections on "Common Programming Errors" makes the learning curve easier, your section on "Good Programming practice" and "Tips" helps you to set your own standards.I can appreciate the hard work gone into the writing of this book and I would like to compliment you and your team for that
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