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Summary: Good for review or introduction
Review: The authors' tendency to skip to other sections of the book (web link style) is extremely annoying, but other than than that I found the explanations in each section helpful. I am using the extensive examples at the end to refresh for the Java Certification and find them helpful in conjunction with the chapter text. Used along with other source material it is a good introduction to the Java language.
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Summary: the best java book i ever read.....
Review: the best book i ever read about this language, it simple and the most importent it for all....
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Summary: Not a tutorial
Review: The title is missleading. This is not a tutorial. I am sure a novice will hate Java reading this book. The information is so scattered that you never know at which point the very simple question you have is answered. I have programming experience but I am sure I could never learn Java from this book. I dont know how useful it would be for an experienced Java programmer since I am not.
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Summary: Not a tutorial
Review: The title is missleading. This is not a tutorial. I am sure a novice will hate Java reading this book. The information is so scattered that you never know at which point the very simple question you have is answered. I have programming experience but I am sure I could never learn Java from this book. I dont know how useful it would be for an experienced Java programmer since I am not.
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Summary: The best-organized book I've read on Java (or ANY topic)!!!
Review: This book does the best job I have ever seen of being both a tutorial and a reference book, and I've seen a lot. The content is excellent, accurate, and thorough; and the organization is not paralleled. It is well-organized; well-indexed; has nice detailed table of contents up front plus more detailed table of contents for each section; tells you what it is going to cover, tells you, and tells you what it covered; is strongly cross-referenced (like its Web version), complete with (accurate!) page numbers; and has a few pages on trouble-shooting and avoiding common problems following each section of four chapters or so. This last feature alone was worth the cost of the book to me in the first 24-hours after I received the book. Campione's and Walrath's "Java Tutorial Second Edition: Object-Oriented Programming for the Internet" is an excellent book. The Web version continues to be updated with new topics not yet covered in the print version (such as lightweight components and Swing). Can you tell that I like this book?
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Summary: Not a book for beginners
Review: This book is awful. The examples are complex and confuse the issue rather than enlighten. The text does not illustrate the topics but in many cases simply lists them. There are many examples where in attempting to define a term , they use the term to define it. The book includes a trail map, but often it is a trial to follow it. The authors waste many lines of text simply predicting what the next paragraph will do. I do not recommend this book. A far better idea is too buy Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java" or Peter Van Der Linden's 'Just Java 1.2'
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Summary: More useful after you already know something about Java
Review: This book is officially blessed by Sun Microsystems, but don't let that fool you - it isn't the best place to start with Java. If you've never used Java before, look for the "Core Java" book. Don't start with this one. I teach Java courses, and we originally tried to use this book as a supplement to in-class work. It wasn't terrible, but we found that the "Core Java" book was much better received than this for first time students.This book was originally written for presentation on the Sun web site, where you can still find it. As a result, it's written in a format that is laced with links and cross references, which I found a little distracting in book form. It's still usable, though - and I'd rather have this much material in book form. You can't exactly curl up with a good laptop. After you've already got the sort of good foundation in Java that a book like "Core Java" provides, this book can be very helpful. You can use this book to fill in the gaps and solidify your understanding of the language. It covers a host of important individual fundamental concepts rather well, and speaks intelligentally to language features, syntax, applets, and more.
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Summary: More useful after you already know something about Java
Review: This book is officially blessed by Sun Microsystems, but don't let that fool you - it isn't the best place to start with Java. If you've never used Java before, look for the "Core Java" book. Don't start with this one. I teach Java courses, and we originally tried to use this book as a supplement to in-class work. It wasn't terrible, but we found that the "Core Java" book was much better received than this for first time students. This book was originally written for presentation on the Sun web site, where you can still find it. As a result, it's written in a format that is laced with links and cross references, which I found a little distracting in book form. It's still usable, though - and I'd rather have this much material in book form. You can't exactly curl up with a good laptop. After you've already got the sort of good foundation in Java that a book like "Core Java" provides, this book can be very helpful. You can use this book to fill in the gaps and solidify your understanding of the language. It covers a host of important individual fundamental concepts rather well, and speaks intelligentally to language features, syntax, applets, and more.
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Summary: It is NOT a good tutorial book
Review: This book overly abused cross-references. The first paragraph may refer you to the third paragraph and the second paragraph may refer you to the first paragragh. Following the references, you will be running around the get lost. If you trim off this absolutely un-necessary WEB of references, the book could lose 10% of its weight.
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Summary: This edition covers JDK 1.0 only
Review: This first edtion of the Java Tutorial in print covers the JDK 1.0, meaning the older event model and AWT components. I saw some editorial reviews up above that seem to gloss over this fact. Be aware that this excellent book is now outdated, and you ought to get the 2nd edition if you are new to Java programming. I just recently (June 2000) saw a print ad for a 3rd edition as well.
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