Advantages: Really did teach me in 21 days. Excellent layout and a good "straight down the middle" attitude throughout Disadvantages: may not help people who have no programming experience
I bought this book through desperation to complete my coursework whilst at University. My teacher was renowned for his inability to teach novices and the majority of the class were severely struggling. Before I go on to review this book, I feel I should state that I came 3rd in the whole year for my final submission which is proof in itself that this book is VERY effective teaching material. This book did more for me in just under 21 days than 1 ... ...This book is structured in a way that each chapter is 1 day (around 2 - 3 hours) of study time.
Depending on your ability you may find that it could take you slightly longer or slightly less time to complete a days study. Another positive aspect of this book is that each of the chapters (or days) are quite evenly weighted, so you can budget your time effectively by measuring the time taken to complete the first two days!
It must be stated however, ...
Gary_Jones 14.12.2000 (13.12.2000)
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Advantages: Good examples, Clear Layout Disadvantages: No coverage of program design
I teach Java to sixth formers and every year I get al least one who goes against what I say and end up buying this book. On the surface I guess it looks attractive, 24 hours to learn a new programming language? Sounds great. Having read through the book it doesn't do a bad job of teaching the very basics, data types, functions, procedures, assignement, iteration, selection all covered. There is example code for people to try and the book extends ... ...is that it skims over so much. At no point are people taught about sound programming concepts or the thought processes behind how you go about designing and creating a program. Thge book also splits things down into "hours" to give you an idea of how far along you are. I decided to give it a try and read through the whole thing completing all the suggested exercises. It took me over 30 hours and I have been programming for years so hopefully avoided ...
thejazzyj 17.07.2009
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