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Introduction to Programming Using Java: An Object-Oriented Approach
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Author: David M. Arnow, Gerald Weiss
List Price: $86.67
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ISBN: 0201612720
Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley (January, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 262,390
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Great, but only for intermediate student
I read some other reviews here, and I saw one person getting rather angry, while another was full of praise. The situation can be uinderstood by noting that this is NOT a beginning level textbook, despite what the author might have intended. Although the author writes using simple and familiar phrases to try to make things clear, its still the case that what he is doing will not be understood by anyone who is completely new to the whole notion of objects. This book is best as a second or third book, to be read by someone who is already comfortable with what an object is. I suppose the way to view this book is that it is a needed gap-filler between the books getting readers to understand what an object is, and what it can do, and the advanced books addressed to experienced programmers who are already experts but just need to get the specifics of Java. What the book does is take a student who knows at least a boiler-plate idea of what objects are and work with him to develop a much more intuitive understanding. Having said that, I would say that this book is good at what it does. It presents a useful conceptual picutre of objects, which should be very helpful in designing programs, and in understanding code written by others.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Pretty cover, pretty graphics, pretty opinionated
I was told to use this book for the introductory Java class I teach at a community college. I liked the idea of teaching objects. The book had a pretty cover, and the graphics are excellent. I read through the introductory matter and was less than pleased. By the time I got to Chapter 2, I knew there was a problem.I have been coding in Java since it was Oak. "Cascading" and "Composition" introduced in Chapter 2? The book using AWT instead of Swing/JFC, there were no usable student questions or exercises, and 70% of the appendix on Java Environments was devoted to the Macintosh!! The text introduces the Vector class as a object oriented programming structure, and then basically tells the reader that arrays are better and negates all the benefits of introducing Java's collection classes. The format forces me to rate 1 star; the star belongs solely to the graphics designers.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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this is the best intro java book i've read. it has been invaluble to me it paints such a clear picture, and teaches oo sweetly, buy this and use it in conjunction with bruce eckels book and i promise you will have bulletproof oo fundamentals with which to build on
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