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Summary: Good, but writing style leaves much to be desired.
Review: As another reviewer has pointed out, there's a lot of help in setting up the jdk, but be aware that the information is given only for Windows. The basics of the language are covered well, but you should have your textbook handy. There are a few mistakes (not mistakes really, but the author didnot want to bring in all the complexities). As a college text, I was looking for some more math based examples, but there aren't too many. The ones he does give don't use adequate formatting of the results. For example, the results for a particular problem (getting the values of sin(x)) are given to 16 decimal places or so. But the exercises themselves are great for practising, which will surely come in useful.
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Summary: Great content but poor organisation
Review: Earlier I had purchased Hubbard's C++ and had no complaints.But this book by the same author leaves much to be desired. The explanations are well written, ...typically Hubbard style, but I was very dissapointed by the way the examples and the chapters were organised in the book. A newcomer who is learning example by example and from chapter to chapter is bound to get confused. In an earlier chapter, an example uses try and catch block to take an input from the user, but the mechanism of try and catch blocks are explained much later in the book. So this book is basically for those who are already conversant with Java and just needs a good brushing-up. If you are new to Java, use this book as a supplement rather than your main text. The examples in the book are excellent and fun to try out.
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Summary: Great Help with Sun's Free Compiler
Review: I have a working knowledge of both C and C++ programming languages through my studies of engineering. Wanting to learn JAVA as it seems to be the up and coming language desired by potential employers, I have tried may other books. Though these books seemed better than this book for first time users, they didn't give much help in using the free JAVA compiler JDK1.2 offered by Sun Microsystems. This including manuals published by Sun itself. I stumbled upon this book costing 1/3 to 1/4 the cost of the other manuals and was impressed at the help it gives in using JDK1.2. I would recomend this book to thoughs for if nothing else but to get JDK1.2 to run correctly. If your just beginning programming though, it may be to fast and brief.
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Summary: Solid but not sexy
Review: The thing you have to keep in mind is that it is designed for students. It concentrates on the basics of the language -- flow control, variables, etc. It has great exercises. But it doesn't really focus on GUI design. I found it invaluable for prepping for the Cert exam however.And, it is very cheap.
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Summary: The price is right!
Review: While this book is far from complete, and the examples are less than practical, it has the virtue of being affordable by students. It's a good choice as textbook for a course, where the main content comes from instructor-provided handouts.
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Summary: The price is right!
Review: While this book is far from complete, and the examples are less than practical, it has the virtue of being affordable by students. It's a good choice as textbook for a course, where the main content comes from instructor-provided handouts.
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