Borland's Jbuilder: No Experience Required (No Experience Required Series)

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Summary: An excellent introduction to JBuilder and Java
Review: A very good instruction source for the programmer wishing to learn about Java via Borland JBuilder. The book presents a series of carefully designed exercises which provide the reader with not only a guide to JBuilder, but a good knowledge base for Java and a reasonable level of understanding of what goes on behind the scenes in JBuilder. Very few bugs in the text and the code. Highly recommended.

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Summary: a decent introduction to JBuilder
Review: As would several other novices to jBuilder, I bought this book (unseen) based on the title and synopsis, only to discover that not only did it offer only superficial information regarding the use of jBuilder, but that there was no database connectivity material. Incredible.

It appears to include an outline of items in which readers would would be interested, but the sections describing these items are full of empty pages and blank space.

How could anyone agree to publish such rubbish?

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Summary: Excellent JBuilder Book for anyone new to Java and JBuilder!
Review: Excellent! Great job in the layout and the detail of description of JBuilder and Java. This book is a must have for people new to JBuilder and Java. But remember, a good book like Core Java by Sun Microsystems is a must companion, as the core API of Java is a subject best handled in a seperate book. Great job John!

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Summary: Not bad for basic skills, but database part missing
Review: I bought this book to get started quickly with JBuilder (no experiance with JBuilder). This was a mistake, the "no experiance required" stand for no experiance with Java. I think if you just want to learn Java there are much better books for sale, if you just want to learn the JBuilder environment you can better buy JBuilder essentials from Carry Jensen.

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Summary: decent delivery on promise
Review: I think this book did a decent job of delivering on its promise. For this reason I give it a 3. As for real world usefulness, I give it a 2. I found it helpful for a person like me, who not totally new to java (the language), wanted to move to the JBuilder IDE and learn how to get things done quickly. By following the chapters, I was able to quickly get Java applets up; creating applications and using JDBC. I also got a good idea of how to manipulate these things from within the IDE.

This book is for JBuilder beginners. If you are looking to learn Java or get into the real meat of the language then this book is not for you. This serves only to get you started with Jbuider and you'll have to do further reading in order to do any real world development.

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Summary: An enjoyable read just for the sake of it!
Review: This book does a good job of teaching how to program in Java using JBuilder. It teaches Java concepts and syntax while also teaching how to use the JBuilder IDE. One thing I missed was coverage of Borland's Model-View architecture; I guess I'll have to buy another book to cover that. That's a pretty minor quibble, I guess, since I was able to use this book to go from knowing nothing about Java to implementing a fairly complex application in under two weeks. If the book had coverage of the Model-View architecture, and something on data sets, it'd easily rate a 10.