Learning Java, Second Edition

Description: Programmers who have learned such languages such as C++ will find that learning Java is easy, and somewhat painless since both use Object Oriented Programming. But what about those who do not have such experience? For those who have experience in O.O.Programming, this book will suit you just fine. However, for the rest of us, this book will be difficult to get through, let alone understand. You can read the book, understand the syntax, but unless you understand O.O.Programming, you will not be able to make effective use of this book. My other complaint for this book was the lack of problems for novices to try. Many other O'Reilly books on programming will put problems at the end of every chapter (e.g. Learning Perl, Practical C Programming, etc.) but not this one. I think that would help any new Java programmer immensely. One last complaint for this book was the first couple chapters. The authors tried to give you some code to try out (obviously to get new Java programmers excited abou .. ISBN: 0596002858 Release Date: July, 2002 List Price: $31.47 Author: Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Last Updated: 06/26/2003

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