Java Programming for Dummies

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Summary: Nice Book
Review: This book has tons of stuff for people who want to program java applets. It has plenty of samples and doesn't get too confusing, although sometimes you have to let the information sink in. All in all, a pretty good book.

Rating:
Summary: Nice Book
Review: This book has tons of stuff for people who want to program java applets. It has plenty of samples and doesn't get too confusing, although sometimes you have to let the information sink in. All in all, a pretty good book.

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Summary: ABSOLUTE RUBBISH
Review: This book is absolute rubbish. It does not teach you java but only bombards you with examples that are useless. After trying to get to grips with this book I found it to be a poor excuse of a book for beginners. AVOID THIS BOOK AT ALL COSTS. If you don't believe me read some of the other reviews that are on this page.

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Summary: Do not buy this book
Review: This book is rediculous. I am a professional Visual Basic programmer, so I do have some programming background with which to evaluate this book. This book not only assumes that you have programmed before, but it assumes that you know Java! This book is neither for beginners nor for those who want an intermediate book. I don't know what it is for, except that the authors can now claim to have been published. The poor organization of this book makes it a bad choice even for review. I suggest that you try "Teach Yourself Java" by Osborne publishing.

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Summary: Java for Dummies? I must be a Moron!
Review: This book starts off with a shrewed beginning into the world of Caffinated Object Oriented programming. The book began with a brief intoroduction to the possibilities of Java and went through to designing simple web page applets to more advanced applications. Included with the book is a very early version of Sun Microsoystems JDK (java developers Kit). I found the book to be quite frustrating that the learning curve is not existant, it is a jump strait up, however if you are a C/C++ programmer looking to do Object oriented programming online this book is a must.

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Summary: What? Where? How? I QUIT!
Review: This book was very much so a waist of money. I didn't learn a single thing in it. The only thing I did get out of it was the "Living Desktop" part and that was horrible. This book might be good for people already in that field, but not for the novice.

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Summary: good book but intended for advanced dummies
Review: this is a good book, however, the early chapters (esp. chapter 5) could be made a lot easier to understand. However, if you have just a little knowledge of other languages such as c++ and have access to a compiler such as visual J++ or java workshop, this book should come in quite handy to the beggining java programmer.

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Summary: JAVA Programming for Dummies
Review: When I sat down at my computer to learn Java through this book, i was left confused ,bewildered, and frustrated. This book has a lack of direction and little or no examples. This book is hard to understand and even harder to use. This book is a book you do not want to add to your cart. This book is definetly for experts and not dummies, which really kind of defeats the purpose.

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Summary: This book makes great fire wood!
Review: When I sat down at my computer to learn Java through this book, i was left confused ,bewildered, and frustrated. This book has a lack of direction and little or no examples. This book is hard to understand and even harder to use. This book is a book you do not want to add to your cart. This book is definetly for experts and not dummies, which really kind of defeats the purpose.

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Summary: A very nice coaster
Review: Wow, this book was just downright horrible. After being extremely pleased with HTML for Dummies, I figured this would be of the some calibur. I couldn't have been any more wrong. The first 3 chapters are a nice introduction to the language but I don't think I ever made it through chapter 4; they throw everything at you within a matter of pages and expect you to understand it all. There are much better books out there.