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Java 5 : A Beginner's Tutorial (Brainysoftware)

Format: Paperback
Author: Budi Kurniawan
ReleaseDate: 15 January, 2006
Publisher: BrainySoftware
Rating:

A great teacher
It begins by telling you the three areas you need to know to be a professional Java programmer:

1. I'm a beginner to Java and find this book useful and consider the author a great teacher. Java language syntax
2. Object-oriented programming
3. Java libraries

Then, it teaches you how to compile your first Java programs and run them, all with the javac and java programs. With little knowledge of OOP before I started, I now feel quite confident with my OOP skill. Java core classes are also explained very succinctly. Sample applications are downloadable from the author's website and with NetBeans or Eclipse everything is a breeze.

There are also interesting and rather academic topics such as
- Why people with procedural programming background (such as Pascal and C) will take longer than those with zero programming experience
- The Java Community Process
- The battle between Eclipse and NetBeans

Those to me are interesting reads and so far this is the best Java book I've read (my company bought 3 other titles).

Save Your Money!!!


This is a lie, when you start out in the book you see no examples of code. This nook is supposed to cater to beginners as the Title deceitfully states "A Beginner's Tutorial". They teach you variables as if you already knew them by heart. I knew "very minimal" a few variables before I started this book and still got lost.

As you read on they talk some about what the keywords, etc are, but not what they do, how to use them, etc. . Plus without any example code, you're lost right away.

I tried to bare with it to the fourth chapter, but this book caters more to an EXPERT buffing up on his/her skills rather than a Beginner as they lead you to believe.

This book is just sitting here, just a waste of $25. If you're a complete beginner, try "Java for Dummies" It relies on a pre-made IO code, but both tells you what you need to know in the basics AND shows you a great source code to go by. . .

This book is great!
This is the book I had been waiting to find! It not only covers the wide variety of features that Java offers, but is also current, as it includes all the latest developments/modifications that the language has undergone. This book is great! I teach several Java-related courses at different levels of university (undergraduate, master's, special diploma courses) and have had trouble finding a book that gives complete coverage of Java, but at a basic level. Finally, it is written in a simple, clear, understandable style. Highly recommended.