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Summary: Great for the beginner!
Review: I have 3 "Java for beginners" books sitting in my shelf, but this is the one that really got me started. Easy to follow, yet not trivial or boring. Great intro on OO programming. For the beginner, I think this is the book to go with - not only on the Mac!
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Summary: Great for the beginner!
Review: I have 3 "Java for beginners" books sitting in my shelf, but this is the one that really got me started. Easy to follow, yet not trivial or boring. Great intro on OO programming. For the beginner, I think this is the book to go with - not only on the Mac!
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Summary: Beginner to Programming
Review: I have just started a programming class in Java at Harvard and am completely new to this field. I have the class book Java How To Program, which I found rather daunting. I bought Visual Cafe and Code Warrior software and became even more baffled. This book has enabled me to gain confidence and have a foundational understanding of what I am doing. Great beginner book.
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Summary: A terrific primer for beginning programmers
Review: I've always been interested in Java and C programming, and had purchased several "beginners" books. This is one of the finest I've read. The book takes you by the hand and slowly introduces you to essential concepts as you go along, rather than throw the "vital" stuff and theory at you all at once (another beginner book called "Learn Java in 21 Days" does this, and was a very confusing book for a newbie like me - however, I am confident to return to "21 Days" now that I've read this book). The book is not all-encompassing, nor should it be. Rather, it is a perfect springboard to the rest of the Java "how-to" bookshelf. You do need your own compiler to create your own applets, but no book is going to give away fully functioning software. I recommend Metrowerks' "Discover Programming for the Macintosh" - it includes Java, C, C++ and Pascal compilers, all for around 80 bucks.
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Summary: A terrific primer for beginning programmers
Review: I've always been interested in Java and C programming, and had purchased several "beginners" books. This is one of the finest I've read. The book takes you by the hand and slowly introduces you to essential concepts as you go along, rather than throw the "vital" stuff and theory at you all at once (another beginner book called "Learn Java in 21 Days" does this, and was a very confusing book for a newbie like me - however, I am confident to return to "21 Days" now that I've read this book). The book is not all-encompassing, nor should it be. Rather, it is a perfect springboard to the rest of the Java "how-to" bookshelf. You do need your own compiler to create your own applets, but no book is going to give away fully functioning software. I recommend Metrowerks' "Discover Programming for the Macintosh" - it includes Java, C, C++ and Pascal compilers, all for around 80 bucks.
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Summary: Concepts Explained Beautifully
Review: If you're looking to begin your computing experience with computer programming, this is a very good foundational book. Boone and Mark hand-hold you through the process, and Java seems very simple under their tutoring. However, as I've begun to program and use this as a reference book, I have occasion to go back to it and try to find coding I'd read about, Finding lost coding is almost impossible. It seems as though very little time was spent on the index and glossaries. In other books like Laura Lemay's HTML book, there was a lot of time that was spent recapping the chapter and listing all the code in a concise, timely manner. There is nothing like that in this book. It wasn't bad enough for 3 stars, but 4 stars seems a little much, too.
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Summary: Concepts Explained Beautifully
Review: This book provides the best introduction to the concepts behind Obj-Oriented Programming I've ever seen. It makes every other attempt to reach beginners that I've read (and there were several) seem ham-handed by comparison. After reading it, I didn't feel like I was a master, but I did feel that my basics were on totally solid ground, and I had ample confidence to go to advanced-level books.I agree with some critics that a chapter on how to use MRJ would have been a good idea. Since I had CodeWarrior Pro already, I can't comment on the software that comes with the book.
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Summary: Great for even the non-beginner
Review: This book was included in a software package for Metrowerks Discover Programming. I was pretty much fluent in C when starting this book, and because of that I skipped the first few chapters and one of the chapters later on, and I learned Java extremely well in just a week. This book gets pretty far into the Java programming language with multithreading, and by chapter 11 you learn how to draw graphics on the actual applet screen. I was very pleased on how great this book was.
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