Java 1.1: The Complete Reference (Complete Reference)

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Summary: Best book for beginners or seasoned newcommers:
Review: As a beginner to Java and programming in general, I naturally fell prey to some of the lame material that's out there. The books either ineffectively convey the basics to the beginner/newcommer, or they weary you with cross-references to the C/C++ languages. This book makes it easy- and to top it off- it's source code isn't buggy. My hopes of becoming an expert Java programmer, once deferred, finally seem attainable.

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Summary: Best Programming Book I've Ever Read.
Review: I hate to be contradictory to the general flow of reviews, but I thought this book sucked. Perhaps it was the setting I used the book in (3rd year university transition-to-java course), but I had previously read the explanation of Object Orentation in Core Java and found that to be substantially better. I found the treatment of several areas to be rather superficial - too light to get the job done. My own combination of books when I was learning java was Java in a Nutshell, The Java Tutorial (online version) and the Java API documentation. Core Java was also useful. I say, even to beginners, look elsewhere first.

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Review: I want more information about the author. For example his mail-ID,Home Page,...

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Summary: Best for the beginners
Review: This is the book which tought me Java. I was in India those days and there were very few books available in the market. I tried Microsoft Press - Learn java now, it talks about everything but Java, then I bought Mastering Java (Sybex)- even this was a poor attempt to teach java. Then one day I found this book, and for the first time I started understanding Java, Authors seemed to be very clear about what they were saying. You will get full value for time and money spent on this book. With this book you don't need to know any other programming language before jumping to Java. It deals with everything. It talks about OOPS concepts, How Java works, etc. etc. The best I have seen so far!