Objects First With Java : A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Awesome book for understanding OOP
Review: This book is what I've always looked for, it doesn't expect you to know anything about OOP or even programming. Step by step the author takes you into the concepts of OOP. There are no "hidden" steps, that you must understand without explanation, every construct that is used is explained when it's used, and the steps are small enought to give everyone the time to understand everything thoroughly. The book has always additional excercises for every chapter, that help you to retry the concepts you've learned. This is very helpful because you might have the feeling that you'd understand what you've read, but it might be that you just understood the example not the concept itself. So I can recommend this book to everyone who wants a real good start in Java and OOP. This book is not meant as a reference book, it's meant for teaching yourself and others in the basics of Java and OOP with the help of BlueJ.

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Summary: Excellent book but..............
Review: This is an excellent book learning OOP in Java. I am self learner, I found this book has good introduction to OOP concept early. What disappoint me was absence of answers to the chapter exercises which is very useful to check the answer to the exercises to enhance learning. Otherwise I would say the chapter exercises is slightly better than useless especially to those who has no 'teacher' to check the answer. The answer actually available online in the book's website but for teachers only and password protected. I don't understand why the answer to chapter exercises has to be a secret!!