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Beginners Guide

Beginning Java Objects: From Concepts To Code, Second Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Jacquie Barker
ReleaseDate: 20 June, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Los objetos al "desnudo"

Estupendamente escrito, claridad y sencillez pero sin llegar a banalidades. "Beginning Java Objects" es un excelente libro que muestra las minucias de los objetos, la manera correcta en que deben de implementarse, la importancia de la encapsulaci?n y de los beneficios que nos proporciona la herencia.
La Programaci?n Orientada a Objetos desde el mejor ?ngulo.

This book really brings it all together!
Meanwhile, I've taken several different Java training courses ranging from beginner to advanced level. I had the first edition of Beginning Java Objects From Concepts to Code sitting on my bookshelf for about 4 years. I've been part of a development team, and although my role has generally been more of a business subject matter expert, I have also gotten my hands dirty and done some large chunks of coding, debugging, and refactoring other people's code.

So what's my point? Well, although I've gotten by well enough in a pretty intense OO/Java environment, I've always felt like it was exactly that - getting by. I finally took this book off the shelf and worked my way through ALL of it over the last couple of weeks, and it really pulled things together for me in a way that nothing else has done. I've read about half of Eckel's Thinking in Java (a couple of times), and most of Deitel's Java How to Program, among others, and they're really great at what they do, but I wish I had worked through ALL of this book before (or at the same time as) reading those. Even though I already had a good understanding of Java syntax, this book helped me understand more than just the syntax of "System. out. println()".

I've seen a couple of reviewers comment on Jacquie Barker's friendly tone, and I certainly agree with those reviewers. I felt like she was a trusted colleague helping me along, but not talking down at all.
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One program is enough
Barker's book gives more help in this area than the other Java books I've read. Regarding Brad's comment, the 'one program' is complex enough to give the reader a lot of practice in understanding the relationships between objects, and that seems to me (an out-of-practice former COBOL programmer) to be the biggest hurdle in understanding object-oriented programming. I read Eckel's Thinking in Java, and got lost by the middle of the book. Once I've finished Barker, I think I'll get a lot more out of Eckel.