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Summary: Thanks A Million!
Review: I would like to congradulate Deitel & Deitel on their series of programming books. I have recently purchased Java How To Program: Third Edition.I am a student starting my final year of school. I wanted to learn Java as later in life I hope to work in the Software Development Industry. I am new to computer languages but I am learning quickly and thanks to Deitel & Deitel I am enjoying learning how to programme with Java. If you are considering learning Java then I recommend you purchase this book.
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Summary: At last, a good programming teaching book
Review: As a student for computer science, I have encountered many programming teaching books. I have never seen a book that really helped me learning the language.
Ususally the book may help as a reference, but not to learn from it.
Some books have good examples, but still, not enough, or not explained very good. This book is different.
First, it's fun studying with it.
It doesn't seem as a teaching book. I found myself sometimes reading it as a regular text book. This is good as it helped me concentrate on the material.
It is also funny sometimes. Another good idea. The examples are clear.
The explenations for the examples make them a lot clearer. The book covers almost any subject a starting programmer should know.
It also covers many more advanced subject. As a reference it is also a great book.
Everytime I had to find something to understand, I found it in the book.
And it was easy finding it also. One last thing,
as a student in the Open University, I can say that if someone wants to learn Java alone, this is the book to choose.
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Summary: Excellent to learn Java *and* how to program
Review: I'm very impressed by the quality of this book. The colorfull printing greatly improves the overall readability. This is a great learning course for programming and Java beginners at the same time. The book emphasizes the delicate balance, between engineering quality and brute performance, which a programmer must strive for. It gives lots of excellent advices and warnings which also make cool breaks along heavily commented code parts and detailled explanations. The course is very progressive : each new program keeps short and adds only one concept or one kind of instruction or instruction use, or one kind of package or Java class. Each chapter ends with a full review of itself : list of new terms, simple exercises with solutions, less easy exercices left to the reader. (Students will feel at home with these ones.) Although the book is not a Java reference, it gives lots of web links and a good companion CD with such links and it tells you where to look at Java or Sun sites all along the text.
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Summary: Simply the best beginning Java Book
Review: I am new to java programming. I started on learning the language several times with different books. And I have a fairly comprehensive computer book shelf at home. Deitel & Deitel is simply the very best java teaching book I have encoutered. However there is allways room to be better, hence 4 stars ;)
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Summary: Thorough and Complete: A Good Starting Point
Review: This book is fun to read and learn from. The exercises at the end of the chapters are interesting and able to be completed with a little effort. Some of the sections need two or three (or more) readings to understand, but I was eventually able to understand all the text. Because of this book I successfully passed the Sun certification for Java 2 Programming exam.
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Summary: Deitel and Deitel are AWESOME!!!
Review: I have used this book and others from Deitel & Deitel, and am always impressed with the breadth of material, the detail of information, and their straight-forward approach. The authors are also very friendly, and were willing to address questions that I emailed to them. What more can you ask for?. I would recommend them to anyone who wishes for a thorough education on the topics they cover.
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Summary: Deitel Text Books
Review: I have used this book and others from Deitel & Deitel, and am always impressed with the breadth of material, the detail of information, and their straight-forward approach. The authors are also very friendly, and were willing to address questions that I emailed to them. What more can you ask for?. I would recommend them to anyone who wishes for a thorough education on the topics they cover.
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Summary: Could use better typesetting for accessibility.
Review: I don't think I need glasses I regularly print documents at 75% and keep my monitor resolution at 1280 by 1024(20-inch). But with the combination of thick fonts, glossy paper, and no line spacing between paragraphs gives me eyestrain after reading a page or two. The book is best not read under strong florescent lights.
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Summary: Not for beginners. Pretty comprehensive, but poorly written
Review: The authors are constantly trying to explain multiple things at once (which they do poorly), and when they have a point to make they repeat themselves 3-4 times with various types of text. In each section, they try to give general programming tips, java programming tips (redundant to the section), explain the material of the section, explain the details of a Java program and make a feeble attempt to explain the details of a new concept brought out in the Java program (which you will need to know for the next 10 programs but which wont be explained for 4 chapters). They explain these things all at the same time. The material is poorly organized (the book is organized as if they are using the same template and applying it to Java) and the explanations are weak.
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Summary: Loaded with Examples and Explanations
Review: You will probably never read this review, because like me your class wil require this book. If, by chance, you're looking for a book to learn Java - you've found it. Having suffered through other text books on Pascal and C++, I found this one to be refreshing. It's chocked full of examples (always good when programming) and it goes through the examples line by line.
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