JAVA 1.2 Unleashed

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Summary: An excellent book, but in the wrong order
Review: I found this book to be an excellent book, despite others reviews. Definitely not for beginners, but a good read for anyone with some programming experience. What others have interpreted as lack of support for those with less experience in the language, I have noticed tends to be simply badly ordered chapters - There are some more advanced discussions at the beginning, and some introductory chapters later on...

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Summary: Good book for programmers
Review: If you've never programmed in Java before, skip this one. The books says you have the necessary background for this book if you've coded in C/C++, but you need a firm grasp of AWT and 1.1 classes before using this book.

This is evident no sooner than chapter 3 which discusses Java 1.2's extended security model. This is an important topic worthy of discussion, but not between introducing 1.2 API's and applet programming.

No depth as mentioned in the above reviews. Only worth your time as a reference, maybe.

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Summary: Java 1.2 unleashed
Review: It's fun to read all the other reviews ;) I agree that this book is not for beginners who want to learn object orientation. But the fact is that many books are all the same. They start with a nice little example that everyone knows: class Hello{ public static void main(String[] args){ System.out.println("Hello world"); }} I think Jamie does a superb job. And for you beginners: This is a book with alot of code examples, such as the Black Jack Game! And I can tell you the code is well structured and follows an appropriate code standard. There are many nice exaples, like the complete HTTP Web Server, etc.

So if you know something about programming, and if you want to explore some interesting things in Java, this book IS very nice.

There are comments enough in this book for you people who at least have a clue about programming! Writing complete Javadoc for a book?? Who would do that, the book would end up with too many pages... This book is heavy enough and I really recommend it for interesting readers.

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Summary: Broad, but very shallow coverage of new Java features
Review: Maybe only 20% of this heavy book contains useful information. It mentions almost every feature of Java, but that's the problem -- it ONLY mentions most of them. It is helpful with the Java 1.2 Swing library, since many older books do not cover that much at all.

I've referred to it for information I cannot find in other books, but it does not provide a full explanation, and I end up looking elsewhere for a more complete understanding.

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Summary: lots of information but the examples aren't object-oriented
Review: This book has examples that are show bad object-oriented design. Also, the code isn't commented.

However, it covers a fair amount of ground. If you know OO and just want info on Java 1.2 then it is okay.

Rating:
Summary: lots of information but the examples aren't object-oriented
Review: This book has examples that are show bad object-oriented design. Also, the code isn't commented.

However, it covers a fair amount of ground. If you know OO and just want info on Java 1.2 then it is okay.