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A First Book of JAVA
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Author: Gary J. Bronson
List Price: $74.95
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ISBN: 0534369235
Publisher: Brooks Cole (13 November, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 936,249
Average Customer Rating: 1 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
disappointing, sometimes offensive
Where to begin? Well, that appears to be the same problem the author of this text suffered, and was unable to resolve. The presentation is a bit scattered, and the exposition is confused and confusing. The simpler points are beaten to death, while the more esoteric issues are left unclear. Code snippets are repeated often "for convenience" (to save the reader flipping back a page, and coincidentally to add pages to the book), and many of the code snippets introduce very poor techniques, without cautioning that this is not the way to write real code. It seems that the author can't decide whether the book is simply an introduction to the language, or a first book on programming in any language. Sadly, it doesn't succeed in either way. The review of basic types is stultifying to those experienced in writing code, yet inadequate to those with no prior experience. If this were priced at the level of a "Dummies" book, it might be forgiven some of its shortcomings, but as it is intended for use in schools, and as I encountered it in a college-level introduction to Java, no forgiveness is possible.
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