Editorial Review:
The Deitels' groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. The books in this series feature hundreds of complete, working programs with thousands of lines of code. This edition is completely up-to-date with The Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.5. Now includes topics such as autoboxing, enumerations, enhanced for loops, static import statements, variable-length argument lists, and much more. Presents each new concept in the context of a complete, working program, immediately followed by one or more windows showing the program's input/output dialog. Enhances the Live-Code Approach with syntax coloring. Provides Helpful Programming Tips, all marked by icons: Good Programming Practices, Common Programming Errors, Error-Prevention Tips, Performance Tips, Portability Tips, Software Engineering Observations, Look and Feel Observations. Includes CD-ROM with every book that contains JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5, Netbeans, Apache Tomcat, JCreator LE version, jEdit, jGRASP, BlueJ, MySQL, source code for all the book's examples, and Hyperlinks to valuable Java demos and Internet resources. A valuable reference for programmers and anyone interested in learning the Java programming language.
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JAVA  2008-04-28
nice book. EASY TO UNDERSTAND / FOR LEARNING THE BASICS.
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Could be the best Java book I own.  2007-10-17
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Good material. Great organization. Good examples. In Color. Love the writing style.
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Print is to small. This should possibly be spilt into Vol 1 & 2 or the format enlarged to make the material more readable. Yes, I know it would cost more but the additional paper would be worth the cost.
THE BEST JAVA BOOK 2007-10-16
JAVA HOW TO PROGRAM 6TH EDITION
If you are serious about learning Java, then you must have this book.
This book is a comprehensive study of Java.
You have to read each line carefully and do the exercises. You will have to go back to many sectioins that you studied already in this book and read it again. At some points, I decided to go to other books that might make it easier for me to learn Java, but I always go back to this book.
The book has a large variety of examples and exercises. When you finish
this book, don't get rid of it. You will need it when you are writing
Java Code.
Methodic and Thorough Introduction  2007-09-12
I wish I had started Java programming with this book. It's written for those who prefer a thorough and methodical learning approach (less "whimiscal" than "Head First Java" and less "philosophical" than "Thinking In Java". The book covers general programming and basic Java language concepts. It is long but not lengthy. The book teaches practical programming skills in a no-nonsense fashion. You can learn Java from the ground up with this book and the free Java tutorials and JDK/API from the Sun website. I already work with Java for some time, so I did not learn anything new from this book, but I still appreciate the didactic approach. The only thing I found annoying is that each and every code example (which are excellent by the way) is explained tediously in natural language. This adds bulk to the book and is IMO unnecessary, because the code is self-explanatory. Hence, four stars instead of five.
Multiple examples might visually help the beginners, but later... 2007-09-10
The book provides many visual examples that help audience to absorb the concepts easier, still we need to reference Sun Java website' API though. Concepts of Object-Oriented Programming, GUI, Data Structures, Sorting & Searching, and among other basics are covered in relatively brief but clear. I think those are enough for beginners who take Java as their first course, as its purpose. The later chapters sparsely introduce more advanced features in Java such as Networking, Web Applications, Database with JDBC, JAX-WS Web Services, etc... without giving complete explanations, as if they are reluctantly added to the book to make it looked thicker and heavier. If you are a beginner, you might not need to cover these features, but if you are going to advance, you might likely encounter dead-ends or summarily discussions.
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