Problem Solving with Java (2nd Edition)

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Summary: No good for beginners or (1st year) students
Review: I am a 1st year student at a computer science & management study in the Netherlands where they chose this book to teach us how to program Java. I'm not the only one who doesn't agree with their choice. It is unstructured, giving you assignments at the end of each chapter without enough explanations on how to do the things they ask. They base their explanations on just one example and give unclear overviews of the structure of java. A week after starting the course I went straight to the bookstore for a better book (Java: How to program, Deitel & Deitel)

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Summary: The Book!
Review: If you are an experience programmer, and looking for fast and easiest Java Data structure and Algorithm book... Look no further! This is the one (it covers almost all the basic data structures and shows you how to take advantages of Java classes and language).

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Summary: A VEry cool book.
Review: This book is for people who have at least some programming experience for sure, and it solidate my understand about OOP with Java through lively examples. It explained essential OOP concept such as Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism in plain english and I could easily understand. The most interest topic about this book are those interviews with some Java pioneers. I would definitely recommend this book to people who have at least written some procedural programming b4, and want to adapt the OOP way of doing things.