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Java: Practical Guide for Programmers
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Author: Michael Sikora
List Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 1558609091
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (23 December, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 613,282
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Java for self-starters
If I could only recommend one book to an experienced programmer who wanted to learn Java it would be this one. It's only 170 pages long and it doesn't contain anything that's unnecessary. But it does cover syntax, flow control, classes and methods, inheritance, exception handling, file I/O, GUI's, collections and threads. That's genuinely Java in a nutshell.The author can offer such a stripped-down book, of course, because he assumes that the reader already understands programmatic flow control and objects, and can follow a basic inheritance hierarchy without tedious explanation. Java isn't a difficult language: it can merely be made to seem so by textbooks that bury simple facts under mountains of verbiage. I hope other authors will take Zbigniew Sikora's "Java: Practical Guide for Programmers" as a model for textbooks for busy people.
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