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Summary: Excellent JAVA text
Review: Looking for a book to teach with? Looking for a book that discusses data structures, JDBC, Algorithm design, pretty much everything? This is the book for you. I was looking for a text for new classes I am teaching in Java and this one fit the bill. Buy it!
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Summary: Poorly organized, poorly edited, poorly written.
Review: The writing in this book is often hard to follow. When they try to break down concepts for you, their analogies are often illogical or simply not helpful. Also, the order of chapters makes very little sense to me (for instance waiting till chapter 7 to introduce User-Interfaces). As a beginning student of Java, i know there are better books out there. I would suggest shopping around for a text that is better thought out.
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Summary: Poorly organized, poorly edited, poorly written.
Review: The writing in this book is often hard to follow. When they try to break down concepts for you, their analogies are often illogical or simply not helpful. Also, the order of chapters makes very little sense to me (for instance waiting till chapter 7 to introduce User-Interfaces). As a beginning student of Java, i know there are better books out there. I would suggest shopping around for a text that is better thought out.
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Summary: Good Book, but full of typos and errors
Review: This is a great book for a beginner Java programmer. Many of the concepts are clearly explained and are easy to understand.However, considering that this is the Second Edition of this book, one would think that they would have addressed the errors in the programs. It is as if no one bothered to compile these programs after they were written. For example, in Example 2.9 on pages 53 and 54, line 20 states:
"JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("The result is " + result);"
when it should be:
"JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The result is " + result);"
Rating:
Summary: Good Book, but full of typos and errors
Review: This is a great book for a beginner Java programmer. Many of the concepts are clearly explained and are easy to understand. However, considering that this is the Second Edition of this book, one would think that they would have addressed the errors in the programs. It is as if no one bothered to compile these programs after they were written. For example, in Example 2.9 on pages 53 and 54, line 20 states:
"JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("The result is " + result);"
when it should be:
"JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The result is " + result);"
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