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 ... Read review
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Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Daysprovides a refreshingly compact and useful tour of Java suitable for anyone who wants to master this powerful programming language quickly.Currently, Java has some 2,000 classes and over 24,000 methods and properties. Instead of covering a laundry-list of features, this book concentrates on what's really important, keeping your attention with short, clever examples, many of which use names and examples drawn from pop culture or historical trivia.The first week of lessons in the book comprises an easily digestible tutorial on basic Java, with review questions and exercises that will help you start using it on your own. Next comes a tour of the various options for building user interfaces in today's Java, including Swing applets and applications. Besides basic component programming, you'll learn graphics using the new Java 2D API. (The older Abstract Windowing Toolkit, AWT, isn't covered.) Material on threading, animation and sound helps you explore Java's multimedia capabilities.The third and final week of lessons addresses advanced Java APIs and features which extend the reach of Java on the enterprise. After delving into more advanced class design, the book looks at topics like I/O streams in Java and object serialisation (which allows objects to work with streams). Chapters on security and basic networking (illustrated using a server that generates trivia questions for clients) will let you work with Java on the Internet. The book closes with a chapter on database programming with JDBC. (There's also coverage of the older JDK 1.0 collection classes, a little surprising given the focus on newer Java 2 standards elsewhere.)In all,Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Daysprovides an efficiently packaged tutorial for learning Java, one that will be appreciated by any beginning Java programmer. The sheer number of classes and APIs in today's Java can be overwhelming. The intelligent and concise series of lessons in this book will help jump-start your knowledge.--Richard Dragan
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A review by Gary_Jones on Sams Teach yourself JAVA 2 in 21 days by Laura Lemay December 14th, 2000
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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
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
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 year (60 Hrs) of lectures did for me at university!!
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, that this book is aimed at people with experience of at least one programming language, who are quite computer literate. Also the book starts right from the very basic foundations of Object orientated programming and ends leaving you with a basic knowledge of each area of Java development.
This book provided me with a firm foundation on which I have built my (now very strong) practical knowledge of the Java2 Development Kit
