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Murach’s Java SE 6: Training & Reference

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This book teaches how to develop Java applications at the professional level. It starts by showing how to code, test, and debug everyday business applications that won t crash. It presents object-oriented features like classes, inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism in a way that s both understandable and useful in the real world…perspective that s often missing in Java training. It presents essential Java skills such as working with data types, control stateme… More >>

Murach’s Java SE 6: Training & Reference

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  • http://www.amazon.com/Murachs-Java-SE-Training-Reference/dp/1890774421%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJYJSDU2KTKP3AFEQ%26tag%3Dkrizznawebid-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN E. Kontsevoy

    What a weird book. I don’t program Java, have never been but I’ve got quite a few years of C++ and C# under my belt. We needed to use some Java-only open source libraries for a project at work, so I figured having a Java reference book would be handy: after all, it can’t be 100% identical to C# as they say, right?

    Well, this book couldn’t fulfill even this modest role: it covers very little, but wastes nearly 6 pounds of dead trees to do it. It takes two pages to explain how to assign a number to a variable. The author uses Windows (!) as a platform of choice and the word “DOS” pops up many times, over and over. It even contains section that teaches you how to use DOS commands like “dir”, “copy” and “cd”. I am not kidding or exaggerating.

    I would understand if it was marketed to teenagers who want to start programming in something, but a book of such shocking size and wall penetrating power can’t be possibly aimed at that audience: if someone needs 2 pages explaining the “magic of assigning a value to a variable”, one’s probably too young to lift this book off the floor.

    I covered first 225 pages without seeing any useful information there: every topic is explained in such a shallow manner, that it could be compared to a common-sense knowledge of Java of someone (like me) who never wrote a line of code, but heard other people talk about the language. The book, like many others, uses a sample project that a reader takes on in the beginning and keeps improving upon as he learns new material, but guess what – this book uses a number multiplying program for that purpose: that’s right – read two numbers from a console, multiply, print out, repeat.

    I am speechless. This is the first time in my life I had to return a book. Yes, Java isn’t supposed to be a brain grinder and I expected a super-easy read, but this book is beyond “easy”, it redefines an “easy read” by insulting your intelligence, it’s that dumb. Heck, one of the exercises calls for documenting a code written for the previous exercise!

    It says $52 on the cover, Amazon sells it for $32 and it’s available used for about $14 – isn’t that telling you something?
    Rating: 2 / 5

  • http://www.amazon.com/Murachs-Java-SE-Training-Reference/dp/1890774421%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJYJSDU2KTKP3AFEQ%26tag%3Dkrizznawebid-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN Ptushqa

    I am very satisfied with whole amazon-purchasing experience, as always ! Book was shipped in solid protecting box and received on time. I would like to say thank you to amazon staff for doing high quality work.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • http://www.amazon.com/Murachs-Java-SE-Training-Reference/dp/1890774421%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJYJSDU2KTKP3AFEQ%26tag%3Dkrizznawebid-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN M. Kauffman

    I have read a number of programming books for various languages, and this one is by far the best. If you are new to Java, don’t even consider another book until after you have read this one.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • http://www.amazon.com/Murachs-Java-SE-Training-Reference/dp/1890774421%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJYJSDU2KTKP3AFEQ%26tag%3Dkrizznawebid-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN Mathew Thompson

    I had recently read half way through the Sam’s teach yourself Java in 21 days book on the way to and from work for a little under a month. The book was very difficult to use and did not do a good job teaching me the material. I purchased this book as a beginner’s guide on the advice of someone who used this book as a text in college.

    I will say that this book does a much better job of imparting the information. I’ve had experience programming in other languages as well as the aforementioned experience with the last book, so I wasn’t totally new to Java, let alone programming. However, where the previous book seemingly failed to impart any real knowledge, this book has done a good job at explaining the beginning concepts, syntax and rationale behind Java.

    Another good thing is that the book is fairly code heavy. The book is set up with descriptions on the left side and examples, diagrams and bullet points are on the right side. So, pages 1 and 2 are companions to each other. I’m definitely one of those people that learns best through example. So, the heavy amount of code in the book makes it easy to set what’s being described.

    However, the book is not without its flaws. Many times, the concepts are described, but the code provided with the description is less than clear. Sometimes this can be a major detriment to understand and other times, it’s a matter of just looking a few pages ahead. Some chapters have small snippets of code that make sense and other times, the snippets don’t make sense.

    For instance, describing syntax of a fairly all-encompassing concept, like referencing a method or calling a class are easy enough to describe briefly. The concept is utilized in a fairly uniform fashion. However, the interaction between multiple classes can be difficult to describe with short code examples.

    Though, frequently the chapters are redeemed by building the code further and further throughout the chapter, so that you have a large block of code that shows the syntax and interaction.

    As someone who has very basic experience with computer programming, I found this book to be very good at getting me started learning how to program in Java and definitely much better than some other books I’ve already read.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  • http://www.amazon.com/Murachs-Java-SE-Training-Reference/dp/1890774421%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJYJSDU2KTKP3AFEQ%26tag%3Dkrizznawebid-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN Robert E. Hohlt

    This book seems to cover a lot of hidden material that other Java books only mention briefly if at all. Even other Java books purchased from here on Amazon. Good so far.
    Rating: 4 / 5