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Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days (5th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)
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Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days (5th Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself) |
Author: Rogers Cadenhead
Published: 2007-06-04 |
List price: $49.99
Our price: $31.49
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 Confusing Appendix A JDK tutorial, and that is just the start!
Appendix A "teaches" you how to get the JDK (java development kit) configured. It is a night mare for someone like me, a beginner. Here are the problems:
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br /1) It wasn't mentioned in the "Running Programs in MS-DOS" that you are supposed to restart your computer after configuring the environment variables, the only place it was mentioned was for Experienced users, and I'm not one of them! Do you know how long it took me to figure that out! I had to reread Appendix A three times! And guess!
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br /2) No where in Appendix A was it mentioned for the "inexperienced user" that you need to include a period for the class path. It was only mentioned for the "experienced user" which, I am not! I skipped over the "experienced user" instructions, because the book said, "For inexperienced MS-DOS users, the following section covers in detail how to set the PATH and CLASSPATH variables on a Windows system" --FALSE!!!!
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br /3)The website tutorial for appendix a touches on the period issue, but not well enough. It has this ".;" which I thought was a typo because no where else was it mentioned. And the picture on the site showed the period after the semi-colon. What the heck?
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br /Please GOD, don't let the rest of the book be this way!
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br /The only thing I like about the book is the one day at a time approach. Any one else know of a good alternative to this book?
 Java at your pace
Likes:
br /A co-worker recommended the book to me and let me borrow it briefly. I found I liked the pacing in the book and the attempt by the authors to modularize each of the chapters making them correspond to days in a week. Due to other "life" distractions I found myself not necessarily able to keep up with the Java in 21 days but I still found it easier to progress through this book as opposed to other similar "[Insert language, application, software, etc., here] in X number of days" books. The examples are good and the authors get the book text to correspond well with the examples. I felt I understood the general concept of what the authors were trying to convey and I enjoyed working through the examples and exercises at my own pace. I felt that the modular chapters of the book would allow me to read through the chapters in most any sequence with the same ease as reading from beginning to end.
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br /I found the website more convenient to use than the CD and the author seems to keep the book's online portion fairly current.
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br /Dislikes:
br /The installation of Java instructions in Appendix A are aimed more at Windows and UNIX users but little or no mention is given to Mac OS X users. I would have preferred some assistance with upgrading Java on the Mac with help from the book or CD. I managed to get by however with Java 5 in Mac OS X. Some Mac users not familiar with installing/updating Java may encounter difficulty if they rely on the book and/or CD alone, particularly the CLASSPATH used in Mac OS X.
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br /There are a couple of typos and errors that need to be fixed (i.e., for some odd reason the references in the book to signed/unsigned data-types are incorrect).
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br /Overall:
br /I'm still going through the book and the things I like about the book, CD and website outweigh what I dislike about each of these items. Despite my dislikes I felt the book deserved 4 out of 5 starts (well 3.5 out of 5 but I can't give half a star).
This does NOT cover java 6
I am a certified programmer for java 1.4, and I bought this book on the title alone to get me up to date with the upgrades to version 6. What a disappointment to find that annotations are not covered at all, and generics only partially. Furthermore the collections framework is largely ignored. I looks like a java 1.3 book with some added examples to make it look like a version 6 book, but it is NOT. So if you need a book to study for the certification exam, this book is definitely NOT the one to get.
br /I found it a complete waste of money.
 OK intro book
The book does a pretty good job introducing the fundamentals of Java. It took me about 4 days to go through it. It's not very good as a reference, but then again there are the Java docs at Sun which are comprehensive.
 Almost perfect!!
Great book, i was migrating from DBXL (dont laugh) to Java 6 and this was the first book i read. The structure is sometimes out of whack and i found myself reading chapters out of order on 2 occasions but asside from this i found it to be an EXCELLENT way to upgrade my knowledge!
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