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Borland's Jbuilder: No Experience Required (No Experience Required Series)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I have to respond to a reader below. He was a little too harsh. The book is not intended to teach you JDBC, client/server, CORBA, RMI you name it. It does a good job explaining the fundamentals of Java and getting around JBuilder. Once you have this 'critical energy' you can make a quantum leap. I personally find the books attempting to cover everything in one big volume mostly bad and useless.

I bought this book to get started quickly with JBuilder (no experiance with JBuilder). This was a mistake, the "no experiance required" stand for no experiance with Java. I think if you just want to learn Java there are much better books for sale, if you just want to learn the JBuilder environment you can better buy JBuilder essentials from Carry Jensen.

I enjoyed this book over and above as just a reference for JBuilder, which I don't even have as yet. There is a lot of neat design stuff and good Java coding to entertain and educate you beyond most books simple syntax approach. I learned some good coding approaches from this book, even though I read it more from a novel standpoint than grinding through all the examples. It is, in fact, one of the few Java books that I enjoy just picking up and casually thumbing through; John just has a nice, relaxed writing style. Check it out even if you don't have JBuilder!

I think this book did a decent job of delivering on its promise. For this reason I give it a 3. As for real world usefulness, I give it a 2. I found it helpful for a person like me, who not totally new to java (the language), wanted to move to the JBuilder IDE and learn how to get things done quickly. By following the chapters, I was able to quickly get Java applets up; creating applications and using JDBC. I also got a good idea of how to manipulate these things from within the IDE.

This book is for JBuilder beginners. If you are looking to learn Java or get into the real meat of the language then this book is not for you. This serves only to get you started with Jbuider and you'll have to do further reading in order to do any real world development.

I have been using Borland products for 10 years. Java Builder seems to be very promissing, but unfortunatelly there are still no books which go beyond basics. This book is no exception. It can help the new user to find his/her way in new concepts, but it will not be of much help in solving crucial practical problems. Databases are not even mentioned in a reference.

This book does a good job of teaching how to program in Java using JBuilder. It teaches Java concepts and syntax while also teaching how to use the JBuilder IDE. One thing I missed was coverage of Borland's Model-View architecture; I guess I'll have to buy another book to cover that. That's a pretty minor quibble, I guess, since I was able to use this book to go from knowing nothing about Java to implementing a fairly complex application in under two weeks. If the book had coverage of the Model-View architecture, and something on data sets, it'd easily rate a 10.

A very good instruction source for the programmer wishing to learn about Java via Borland JBuilder. The book presents a series of carefully designed exercises which provide the reader with not only a guide to JBuilder, but a good knowledge base for Java and a reasonable level of understanding of what goes on behind the scenes in JBuilder. Very few bugs in the text and the code. Highly recommended.

As would several other novices to jBuilder, I bought this book (unseen) based on the title and synopsis, only to discover that not only did it offer only superficial information regarding the use of jBuilder, but that there was no database connectivity material. Incredible.

It appears to include an outline of items in which readers would would be interested, but the sections describing these items are full of empty pages and blank space.

How could anyone agree to publish such rubbish?