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Title: The Complete Java 2 Training Course, Fourth Edition by Deitel & Associates, Paul J. Deitel, Deitel, Associates ISBN: 0-13-064931-7 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 Format: CD-ROM Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $109.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Correction
Comment: Writing again to correct a previous review of this course. Turns out that there are more answers to the problems on the CD, but the CyberClassroom has a few more answers in the cyber interface...that's where conclusion of 2-3 answers came from in my first review. For that I have bumped up the rating to 4 stars..
Rating: 3
Summary: Good course, but thought there was more to it
Comment: What I mean by that is I was under the impression that the highly touted Cyber Classroom would be a significant addition to the book. I purchased their C# how to program and felt I was missing something by not having the Cyber classroom portion of that book by the way they and others talked about all you received in it. When I was looking to purhcase this title I decided to get the edition with the Cyber Classroom to get the full benefit as everyone said. I am not trashing the cyber classroom as it does provide all the code samples in the book with many of them accompanied by an audio description explaining what the code does. Also you can click on a lighting bolt and the code will run right from within the Cyber classroom. For me the LiveCode aspect is not a benefit to me as I like to type the code in myself when learning a new language to get ingrained in its syntax, but that's my personal way of working and I can see how it may benefit others so I am not knocking it. Aside from that, the Cyber classroom is really just the book on CD--correction; it does allow you to take an assessment exam after you complete a chapter and keeps track of your score for each exam taken. It isn't a comprehensive tracking of your score; however, just a simple score showing the percentage of the questions you got wrong. I didn't find the assessment exams to be challenging, which isn't bad because their simplicity helps reinforce the points in the chapter. However, when you want to really test your understanding and want to challenge yourself by doing the end of chapter excercises you will be up the creek alone. As stated by another reviewer, you do not get many answers to the excercises at the end of the chapters. The end of chapter excercises in my opinion are what really challenge you and not to have answers to at least half, well, kind of sucks. I realize that this text is used in colleges and all answers cannot be given, however, each chapter has at least 30+ excercises, yet they only give on average answers to 2 - 3 problems in the cyber classroom--and many of these aren't the really challenging ones. With 30+ excercises per chapter I think answers to more that 2 or 3 problems wouldn't kill professors. Kind of kills the challenge aspect. Granted you'll know if you got it right if your program works, but I always like to see how someone else would have solved it and I usually learn more form that.
In ending, I WOULD recommend the book but, unless you like not having to type code when learning a language or like to read a book on screen and have the code examples executed at the click of a button, I cannot recommend the entire course--in my opinion it doesn't add all that much to it. If you are an absolute newbie to programming I say go for it though.
Rating: 4
Summary: Review of a postgraduate student
Comment: I bought this book as an additional book for my course in Java programming. It proved to be a quite useful book on its own. It contains many examples, pointers and theory. I found extremely useful the source code examples it provides. Especially the coloured text that Deitel adopts makes the code extremely easy to read. They could have added more comments though. The CD is also very useful, containing a few chapters. I haven't used the extra two cd's with the JAVA lessons because I do not have time to try it. But I read about its content and it sounds really promising. About those who study Software engineering, the book also contains many examples of UML diagrams, which I found extremely helpful. It makes the connection between Java and UML more clear and helped me a lot to understand much of UML's theory, through practice.
I am only a beginer at JAVA, and I think this book is an excelent choice of book for someone like me.
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Title: The Complete XML Programming Training Course (1st Edition) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Tem R. Nieto, Ted Lin, Praveen Sadhu, Tem Nieto ISBN: 0130895571 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $109.99 |
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Title: The Complete Perl Training Course (1st Edition) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Tem Nieto, David C. McPhie ISBN: 0130895520 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 28 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $109.99 |
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Title: Oracle9i: The Complete Reference by Kevin Loney, George Koch, Tusc ISBN: 0072225211 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 16 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $74.99 |
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Title: Java How to Program, Fifth Edition by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel ISBN: 0131016210 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 16 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Advanced Java 2 Platform: How to Program (With CD-ROM) by Harvey M. Deitel, Paul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel ISBN: 0130895601 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 28 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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