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Java Programmer's Reference
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Author: Grant Palmer
List Price: $34.99
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ISBN: B0000B0SZJ
Publisher: Wrox Press Inc (March, 2000)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 1,534,436
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
What's missing?
I was very disappointed with this book. For someone quite experienced with Java it might serve as a good tool for jogging the memory. 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.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The book is an Express Reference.
The book could be used by a beginner too. I was forced to use Java to develop a simple network program and I was a total beginner (first time) to Java. 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.
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