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Summary: Best introduction book on Java
Review: Before reading this book I have read about half a dozen of Java books. I am also a Sun Certified Java programmer. But after reading this book I have totally changed the way I looked at Java as a language. This book will help you to use an object oriented programming language properly. Especially if you have structural programming experience this book will help you to design and code in an object-oriented manner.
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Summary: Excellent Java and OOP book
Review: If you want to learn Object Oriented Programming using Java then look no further than this book. This is probably one of the best programming books available for beginners and medium level programmers. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Great book.
Review: I am glad I found this book in time when I was looking some for some good books in Java after reading few chapters of Thinking in Java and not understanding what's going on.
After finishing this book which made me very comfortable in understanding Java with SRS system(I am not working in java) I started looking into certification with other books and now I am certified.Thanks to Jacquie for writing such a nice book.
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Summary: Definitely a beginners book
Review: I bought on recommendation only to find the first five chapters review. The UML coverage is decent, but I disagree with the approach somewhat, using noun/verb analysis and functional decomposition. I don't believe this is the best approach for developing OO solutions.A book I highly recommend for getting your arms around OO we a design patterns spin is "Design Patterns Explained." Takes the Gof4 book and breaks it down to easy to understand conceptual examples.
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Summary: Excellent book for explaining the O-O paradigm
Review: This book enabled me to understand O-O concepts, e.g., "static" and polymorphism, that I just could not figure out despite having taken a Java programming class, and having read a number of other Java books and on-line tutorials. I was seriously stuck in my ability to progress with the language until I read this book. Now I'm going for the SCJP certification. By far the best book I've found for explaining the O-O paradigm in a way that makes sense to me. Also, I really appreciated the clear and non-confusing code examples. I find many programming books include unecessarily complex code examples, or throw in new concepts in a code example without explaining them first, or letting you know they are coming. This causes confusion and frustration, and interferes with learning. It was refreshing that this book did none of that. I'm greatly looking forward to Ms Barker's next book.
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Summary: Excellent Text for beginners
Review: As the title of the book suggests, this book is more about Object Oriented Modeling rather than being a Java only book. This book is intended to be a university textbook. Thus, it has few exercise questions at end of each chapter. All examples in the book revolve around a Student Registration System application developed in java. The organization of chapters is in three sections. First section focuses on basic OO concepts. The second section gives introduction of UML and some Java concepts like Garbage Collection and Exception Handling. Having laid down all the basic stuff i.e. OO concepts and model, the third section of the book is mainly about implementation. It describes GUI Layout fundamentals, Frames, Panels and Listener classes. The book is easy to follow and useful for beginners. I will recommend this book to everyone who wants to start learning OO programming. Basic OO concepts are presented in the book in nice way. I have not read any other book doing it in such a simple way. Other books tend to get more abstract or complicated. This book presents a nice mix of code and OO Modeling.
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Summary: Good primer on OO programming
Review: It's an introduction to object oriented programming using Java. It does a fine job of covering the various steps you MUST do before you sit down to write code. The first few chapters deal with the design phases of a project and would be helpful to any object oriented language.
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Summary: This Book Has A Place In Your Java Library
Review: This is a good book that uses the clever device of starting with theory rather than with actual Java programming. The theory is well written, but any theory is a little hard to follow as it gets more complex, unless you have a lot of hands-on practice to put with it. I find that many of the Wrox books tend to have less hands-on practice than some other publishers. And many of the Wrox books get a ton of favorable reviews. I guess that either people like books that do not have a lot of practice examples, or something else is going on. I have read 5-6 Java books. This comes out somewhere in the middle for my purposes.
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Summary: Great!
Review: Jacquie Baker's book is great, no doubt. However, I truly believe that a complete beginner to this topic of object technology will need to study more than one book at the same time for clarifications here and there! This is what I am now doing, and for the first time, the big picture is getting home. My combination? Jacquie Bakers's Beginning Java Objects, Dr. David Taylor's Object Technology: A Manager's Guide, and - of course - Walter Savitch's Java: An Introduction to Computer Science and Programming. Walter Savitch's book is marvelous, repetitive by design; with these three books, there is no place else to go except forward. Good Luck!
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Summary: The best Java book ever read....
Review: I quite agree with all the reviewers. She did a good job in explaining the basic concept and follow with a sample SRS application. I believe the best way to learn programming is practise with examples. I give her 10 stars **********
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