Description: If you have never programmed before this is the book for you. Java is probably the easiest Object-Oriented language to learn and this is the easiest book to learn Java from. The writing is concise and unbelievably clear; and 8 year-old could learn Java from Savitch. Pick up this book and download JDK from Sun for free and you'll be programming in no time. Example: One of the most annoying things (at least at first) about Java is its I/O System. And obviously to run the simplest program you need user input. However Savitch solves this issue by having a class, SavitchIn, that handles user input pretty well. Thus beginners can jump right in and start programming without having to worry about parsing command line arguments or using StringTokenizer. All this having been said, this book is far from comprehensive and you'll soon outgrow it. But as a computer science grad student, I can say that undergraduates with no previous programming experience love Savitch's book, and you will too. You ..
ISBN:
0131013785
Release Date:
07 April, 2003
List Price:
$85.00
Author:
Walter Savitch
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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