Reference

Java Programmer's Reference

Format: Paperback
Author: Grant Palmer
ReleaseDate: March, 2000
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What's missing?
For someone quite experienced with Java it might serve as a good tool for jogging the memory. I was very disappointed with this book. When you are in the process of discovery it is a very difficult book to use. The index and the table of contents center around classes, not topics. If you don't already know the classes count on wading endlessly back and forth through this book. For the programming I was doing the reference was very incomplete, even regarding the basics. I found references on the Internet to be much more helpful than this book.

Great Reference book
. This book by Grant Palmer is by far very VERY useful.. i repeat. . . VERY useful if you can't figure out how to work with a specific class. The short examples give a good idea on how to implement something. It makes understanding things much easier since he has code and what the program will execute and what the output will be.

He goes through the very basics, such as access modifiers and variable sizes, etc. He moves from the standard packages and moves gradually to file IO, then towards the AWT/Swing packages.

The author isn't able to demonstrate ALL of the classes but by far, he covers close to 100% of what are mostly used in real-world applications. It is by far, one of the best reference manuals that I know of.

Keep in mind his title: Programmer's REFERENCE.

The way I see it, he fulfilled the book's purpose and definitley deserves those 5 stars.

The book is an Express Reference.
I was forced to use Java to develop a simple network program and I was a total beginner (first time) to Java. The book could be used by a beginner too. With this book as my main reference, it helped me most of the way in my program. The examples for window programming javax. swing package were great. The book help me to understand Java too. I suggest that first time programmer to Java should have this book.