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Title: Java 2 Programming for Dummies Deluxe Compiler Kit by Donald J. Koosis, David Koosis ISBN: 0-7645-8050-7 Publisher: Hungry Minds Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a good book for beginners.....
Comment: I am an IT instructor for a community college in the area. I usually research various textbooks, and I recommend supplemental textbooks to my students to assist them with their learning. I purchased "Java 2 Programming for Dummies", figuring that this would be a great book to help a student with very little programming experience (the Computer Technology programs at the college start out with Java Applet and HTML Programming). IMO, the book was very difficult to follow. The code examples in the text were incomplete, and the text did not explain certain elements of the language very well. For example, when the book was explaining object-oriented programming, the book used a cartoon to explain the concept (which is fine), but the book did not do a good job with translating the concept in Java.
Also, it is not indicated clearly in the book that the student needs to follow along with the CD in order to see the completed coding examples.
To make sure that it wasn't "just me", I had the department head, who is very experienced with Java, review the book, and he agreed with my assessment that this book would confuse the beginner.
Rating: 3
Summary: Tries to be too advanced for a Dummies book.
Comment: I noticed the other reviews agree with me; absolute beginners hate this book, but professional programmers find it helpful. The author seems intent on describing "real" applications, but wants to keep the book brief; around the size you'd expect a Dummies book to be. As a result, the author has to be too brief when explaining Java basics; hence the bad reviews given by beginning programmers. However, if you're a professional programmer the brief explanations are enough to get you going, and the "real" programs are much more illuminating then what is usually seen in programming books. Personally, I would have written two Dummies books; one for the absolute beginner, and a second book for graduates of that book and more advanced programmers (kind of like the Core Java books).
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, the answer to learning¿
Comment: As a programmer of basic basic, assembly language, c, visual basic and designer of web pages I am always confronted by that horror of horror - new technology. All the learning, the jargon, the procedures and the syntax becomes a very weighty burden to over come. In this case, Java, the language of the Internet and the future language of desktops. Dutifully committed, it began with the reference books, the ultimate books - all the books that shout out, "buy me, and buy me if you want to learn Java!" so I went through Amazon, the darling of the Internet and books galore on the subject and bought these expensive, so call complete text and reference books. Additionally, I purchased a book from Borders, (don't tell Amazon) a bright yellow book called Java Programmer with the Deluxe Borland Compiler. Now mind you I am an expert in designing and I had this built in reservations about the dummies books. "Who are these people writing about such complex subjects?" "I wont dream of reading them" on and on I thought what an insult to the profession if I bought such books. Anyway, needing a compiler, I purchased the package. Anyway, to keep a long story, long, (I like to talk and write) I plowed through the books for professionals and immediately got bogged down in history, in theory and in the complex way they presented the material. But I thought to myself, this is the price you pay for learning new technology. One day, I was browsing through my wonderful collection of Java books and picked up the Java book for dummies, (I had removed the Borland compiler from it previously and cast that yellow book back on the shelve to collect dust.). well to keep a long story shorter, I will simply say the following: 1.The Java for dummies book open up a new approach in leaning languages. 2.D and D Koosis, authors of the book, have made a complex subject easy to understand. 3.They keep to the essentials without losing the details needed to understand the subject. 4.They have designed a book that is entertaining while you are learning. 5.While the history, the evolution, the theory behind the door is important, eventually, it is not needed to get you on aboard and begin programming in Java. 6.They have written the most easy to understand a section on oop using Java as an example that is the best in the field if you want to understand the concept. 7.I have begun using applets in my web sites rather than script basic, based on its characteristics.
8.My dummies book, Java programming for dummies with the Borland compiler now rests on top of the other Java books, which are now collecting dust because of neglect. Meanwhile the Java for dummies book is torn, marked up, coffee stains and in constant use for reference. 9.Also get this, the Borland Java complier is cost into the book and a hell of a lot less expensive than purchasing it as a stand along. 10.For those wanting to get in contact with me, its [email protected] or to get in touch with the experts, tis on the Dummies web site, under their name. John
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