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Summary: Confusing
Review: examples are broken up and explanations are bland my teacher in this class is learning it with us and she has no clue its uber confusing but the programs compile good with the compiler we use which is blue j and J creater
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Summary: Confusing
Review: I am currently in the 6th week of my Java class, and I still don't know the differnece between a class and an object. This book is a waste of space. Nothing seems to be in the right place nothing is explained well at all. Its so bad that even with some other in my class to explaine the concept of Java to me I still am not anywhere near where I should be. VOID THIS BOOK WITH ALL POSSIBLE MEANS.
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Summary: A Good introduction to programming & Java
Review: I found this book pretty neat if one wants to develop an object oriented approach to programming .Though java is not covered exhaustively, but it does give the beginner a feel of how java works.I had a teacher to go along with this book & that too helped to get the maximum from the book
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Summary: AVOID IT
Review: The presentation was very dry, but it's because it's an academic book. Don't expect that because it's Java, a hot IT technology, the book will have a great presentation. Another thing that was frustrating was the way the author smeared problems all over the book and never included solutions to them on the CD - that's useless to me. Overall, it delivered like any other academic book. If you want a better experience learning Java I recommend Wrox's Beginning Java 2 SDK 1.4 Edition, by Ivor Horton. You get more pages, better explanations, wider range of topics, better index... the works. ...
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Summary: Good book for those who want to know the basics of Java
Review: This book has great example codings for beginners, as well as enough information for more advanced users to extrapolate learnings from them. Lots of practise and review examples at the end of each chapter. Good examples of how loops, arrays, conditional statements, etc. work. Once done, you will know the basic terms for using Java. Unfortunately, no answers for the questions are given, but that shouldn't discourage anyone from TRYING the programs. A good book, but a little expensive. The only other critism i have is that to learn more about just the basics of Java requires that you buy even more books that are about the same in price.
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Summary: Bad Book!!!
Review: This book was bad..... in organization, setup, explanation, and examples.... If you want a good java book, LEWIS and LOFTUS is great. I regretfully have to buy BIG JAVA another Horstman great for a class. I sure hope its better than this one!
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Summary: Don't let the big JAVA 2 on the cover fool you...
Review: This book's main purpose was to teach the computing concepts using a little bit of Java. Don't plan on learning enough about the Java language itself to make something useful. I was deceived because I saw the words "Java 2" on the cover in big print. I guess one really can't blame the author for it because it does say "Computing Concepts w/ Java2 Essentials." It was still a disappointment to me since I wanted to learn Java from this book first. Of course, the price of this book is WAY too much for what it teaches. But if you want to learn just Computing Concepts, go ahead and buy it...however, I wouldn't recommend it =P
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