Description: The book was published in January 1998 so it only reflects pre-beta changes. Unfortunately, this can be spotted in both the quality of the text and its reflecting advanced Java 2 things (no mention of Collections etc). It wouldn't alone make a book bad - after all, you should buy for example Thinking in Java that has a wonderful chapter on Collections -, but the 1.0 / 1.1-specific stuff is also badly explained. Very important C/C++-related subjects are not mentioned: the inherent differences between C/C++'s and Java's static is not even mentioned. Comparing the C++ and Java exception libraries is also painfully missing from the book. And there are a lot of C++ listings in the book without much help - the authors seem to forget sometimes that they're working on a book on Java and not on C++. Core Java has no C++ in its title, but I still found it at least as useful as this book when it comes to emphasizing the differences and similarities between the two languages. Having lost its grea ..
ISBN:
0471183598
Release Date:
1998
List Price:
$54.99
Author:
Michael C. Daconta, Eric Monk, Al Saganich
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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