Java(TM) Essentials for C and C++ Programmers

Description: A long time ago I was a long time C/C++ programmer. I was looking for a book that could take me from C -> C++ -> Java. Mr. Boone's book does a very good job of accomplishing this. I found the book an easy read and the examples very reader friendly. He spends a lot of time and detail explaining the migration of code syntax, in straight forward examples and helps the reader move into OOP concepts. The book could easily be subtitled "Transitioning to OOP for old C guys". Sticking with the platform-independent nature of the JAVA language, Mr. Boone tries to be non-platform specific, yet in doing so somehow comes across as anti-Microsoft, which I'm finding out is quite popular in books on JAVA. Bottom line, since I own a copy of Microsoft's Visual J++, I found some of the examples hard to get working. This was a bit fustrating, but learned a lot more about VJ++ in the process. I got a sense that if I had a SUN computer, the examples would work flawlessly. Once Mr. Boone gets through the e .. ISBN: 020147946X Release Date: 16 April, 1996 List Price: $19.95 Author: Barry Boone, Boone Barry, Barry Boonem Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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