Reference
Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 Platform in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition
Format: Hardcover
Author: Laura Lemay
ReleaseDate: 21 January, 1999
Publisher: Sams
Rating:
Your patience will pay off...
It is informative, provides good examples, and it actually teaches you the basics of Java programming with both Java Applications and Java Applets. I believe most people will learn a lot from this book. The book puts an emphasize on Graphics programming, including the AWT classes, and Swing (new in Java 2). The book is extensive and will test your patience, specially if you are new to programming, but it will most definitely pay off in the end. I read the book cover to cover, and since this is the professional edition it also has an extra bonus week which covers important concepts like Signing applets, data structures, JavaBeans and how to connect to databases throught JDBC. This book boldly claims to help you teach yourself Java 2 in 21 days. If you put some effort into it, that's about as long as it'll take. . Some "days" will take you an hour or two, while others will take you 4-5 hours to grasp and go through the examples. Pros:
* Quite extensive material
* Fairly well written
* Has that extra 7 days worth of more advanced stuff as opposed to the regular edition.
* Good reference to have after you're done reading it Cons:
* A bit too much emphasize on AWT/Swing - Could've concentrated a bit more on the meat 'n potatoes of Java. All in all, a very good buy, and a good reference to have after you finish it.
great book for non OOP programmer like me ...
the jabberwocky, made me understand the concepts of OOP. I've read most of the chapters of this book, and the examples, esp. The authors explains the details in some funny way, and although sometime I had to re-read some parts of the previous chapters, I am grateful for the authors' style of writing, so I am now more interested than ever to finish the book and read some other references. I bought another great book, "Java 2: How to Program" by Deitel a few months back , but after comparing the two books, I decided to read SAMS first because of OOP. Next stop is Deitel's book , then maybe surf the net for other references. Great buy !.
Your patience will pay off...
It is informative, provides good examples, and it actually teaches you the basics of Java programming with both Java Applications and Java Applets. I believe most people will learn a lot from this book. The book puts an emphasize on Graphics programming, including the AWT classes, and Swing (new in Java 2). The book is extensive and will test your patience, specially if you are new to programming, but it will most definitely pay off in the end.
I read the book cover to cover, and since this is the professional edition it also has an extra bonus week which covers important concepts like Signing applets, data structures, JavaBeans and how to connect to databases throught JDBC. This book boldly claims to help you teach yourself Java 2 in 21 days. If you put some effort into it, that's about as long as it'll take. . Some "days" will take you an hour or two, while others will take you 4-5 hours to grasp and go through the examples. All in all, a very good buy, and a good reference to have after you finish it.
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