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Summary: One of the BEST Java books, learn how to Java with this book
Review: I have read many Java books, I own most of them. This book covers the basics and introduces the advanced topics very well.Buy this book if you want to learn to think Java and program Object-Oriented.
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Summary: Really bad! These guys need to learn how to write.
Review: The most confusing programming book I have ever read. I am used to insightful, clear explainations like those typically found O'Reilly's Java books. This book doesn't even come close. The book give the reader the false sense that Java is just another procedural language like C or RPG. This is not surprising; books written for a procedural language and adapted to a new language often maintain the mind set of the old language. These authors clearly do not understand how to think in object-oriented terms and the sure don't know how to teach it.
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Summary: "Our emphasis is on pedagogy"
Review: There are some decided bright spots about this book. The fact that it is written like a text is great for students trying to learn a language. However, more focus needs to be given to the layout of this book. Pages go on and on without section titles and the like. Also, the authors seem to devote too much time on professing their teaching beliefs and style...with phrases such as "Our emphasis is on pedagogy"..."Our goal was clear", etc. One final note. My college uses other Deitel books, such as the C and C++ texts. I was disappointed to find the exact same examples , paragraphs, discussions, etc in both the C++ and JAVA books. No matter how many similarities exist between the two languages, they could have come up with some new examples. The JAVA editions are the C++ editions with JAVA syntax.
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Summary: Complete book for THE JAVA PROGRAMMER !
Review: "The book covers all facets of the Java language." And that is true, not like some other books which make you go indepth and you just miss some important topics. This book covers all the knowledge you need on JAVA. Splendid work done by the Deitel's again after the C and the C++ books. Myself am a mainframe programmer however this book makes me feel like I know Client/Server environment and OOP since a long time.
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Summary: Have these guys programmed in real world???
Review: This book hardly teaches you anything about real- world Java programming. Majority of examples are really bad
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Summary: Between GOOD and EXCELLENT
Review: I use this book in an introductory programming course designed for persons with "little or no experience in programming". The book serves my students very well, introducing basic principles, reinforcing them with real code, pointing out common errors and performance related issues. There are some minor errors in the book, but any user with fundamental knowledge in Java will be able to easily circumvent any problems encountered. I consistently get favorable feedback from the students on the usefulness of the book. The most frequent complaint that I receive is related to the durability of the book - it does have a tendancy to fall apart - which is a manufacturing issue rather than a content issue. OVERALL A DAMNED GOOD BOOK.
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Summary: Buy this book to learn Java as you would in a classroom
Review: This is a good book for learning Java as you would in a course. It is a textbook. To talk about other reviewers' comments, this is not an OO book. This is not a book about programming methodology. It is simply a book that explains how Java is used to write programs. The programs themselves are not the subject as much as how they are written using Java. I think that some of the criticisms leveled in this page are quite unfair. I am a technical team leader with 5 years experience in IT programming. I have both bachelor's and master's degrees in CS. I have worked in C++ and C for a long time. Yet I liked this book because of its examples and code. I also enjoyed the exercises. I wish the book were smaller and less expensive. The CD-ROM is really unnecessary if the authors had provided the software on their web site. Also if all the Java links in the book's appendices were on the authors' web site, it would have saved some more trees. I sometimes wish the Deitels had written with greater brevity. There are also some really silly errors like lists that start with (h) instead of (a) in the self-review exercises (looks like Microsoft Word did them in. Also looks like their editor did a rush job). Don't mistake me -- this is a good book to learn Java from. If you are looking to learn OO or looking to learn algorithms or even how programs ought to be written, look elsewhere.
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Summary: This book walks on water?
Review: The greatest Java book ever written, everything there is to know about Java and more. Authors are the world's leading experts on every computer language they can sell a book about. And the book is so reasonably priced. After reviewing the book, my vote concurs with all those feel the book is confusing and poorly written.
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Summary: How to sell your book.
Review: As with all the Deitel books, there seems to be an extraordinary number of glowing 5-star stating that book is the greatest book ever written mixed in with lots of horrible reviews. There seems to be a strategy: Drown all the bad reviews with walk-on-water reviews. There are just too many bad reviews to dismiss them. I agree with all the poor reviews below. Very few book warrant a 5-star review and this book is not one of them.
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Summary: Incomprehensible OO discussion!
Review: The books explanations of object-oriented programming lacks focus, mixes 3 or 4 metaphors and used terms that serve only to confuse the reader. Reading the OO explanations is like reading a psychology test book: A simple concept is made to seem complicated and scientific by using verbose explanations filled with excessive long-winded terminology. In addition, the book is downright boring and poorly organized. I can't believe anyone could objectively rate this book better than 3 unless they are rating it in a vacuum.
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