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Design and construct robust applications and applets with Java!
Created by leading corporate trainers Deitel & Associates, this hands-on, interactive training course combines the world's #1 interactive Java training CD-ROM, The Java Multimedia Cyber Classroom, and the outstanding introductory Java textbook, Java How to Program. You'll start with basic Java syntax and control structures then master methods, arrays, object-oriented programming, graphics, Swing user interface programming, exceptions, multithreading, multimediaeven network programming! This new edition has been enhanced throughout, and includes a start-to-finish UML design case study for building robust, high-performance enterprise applications. It'll help gain true Java mastery faster than you ever thought possible!
More than 12 hours of detailed audio explanations walk you through 250+ complete, ready-to-run programs10,000+ lines of live code you can load, run, and adapt!
Test your knowledge with hundreds of interactive self-review questions and programming exercises!
Get fast, in-depth answers from the fully searchable copy of Java How to Program, Fourth Edition!
Discover hundreds of tips and ideas for maximizing performance, interoperability, and reusabilityand for avoiding and troubleshooting problems!
Packed with live Java source code, plus links to the Web's best Java resources!
Your Multimedia Cyber Classroom is by far the best learning tool I have. Keep up the great work!
Bill Nelson
I have purchased four programming sets from you now: one on Visual Basic, one for C++, and one just ordered for Java. I find your course structures very helpful and well designed. Most especially, I find your line-by-line explanations of example programs extremely beneficial. It is very rare that programmers are equally as proficient in their writing skills.
Hal LeTourneau, Computer Science Student
I purchased your textbook Java 2 How to Program, Third Edition a few months ago. The book is outstanding; I cannot put it down. Bear in mind that I am no programmer in any language by any stretch of imagination. However, I am learning Java on my own for personal development and your textbook is doing a fantastic job of teaching me.
Ken Yeates-Trotman, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Delaware
Harvey Deitel and Paul Deitel are principals of Deitel & Associates, an internationally recognized training and consulting organization specializing in Java, C++, C, Visual Basic, XML, Python, Perl, ASP, object technology, and Internet and World Wide Web programming training. They are the authors of many of Prentice Hall's best-selling books, all of which are the result of the Deitels' coverage of the most up-to-date and innovative topics in a consistent, exciting, and accurate way.
The Deitels are renowned for their signature Live-Code Approach to teaching programming languages, where each new concept is presented in the context of a complete, working program immediately followed by one or more windows showing the program's input/output dialog. Every How to Program book features innovative pedagogy, highlighted by icons that point out Good Programming Practices, Common Programming Errors, Look-and-Feel Observations, Performance Tips, Portability Tips, Software Engineering Observations, and Testing and Debugging Tips. Each book contains source code, a compiler or other programming tools and hyperlinks to demos and Internet resources on a CD-ROM, on the Web, or in both formats.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Text Book,
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This review is from: Complete Java 2 Training Course, The (4th Edition) (Boxed Set) (Paperback)
If you learn more efficiently by a combination of reading and multimedia, this is definetly the purchase for you. However, this is a text book and can be fairly dry and somewhat overwhelming. There is an immense amount of information contained in this package. If you don't have any programming experience, I would not recommend this as your first foray into application development. Another BIG drawback is unless you are a teacher/professor, you won't be able to obtain the answers to the excercises. For some, this might be considered a critical flaw. If you can make it through this text and multimedia offering, you will be well on your way to mastering Java. I have a previous edition of this text and the current edition is a considerable improvment.In response to a previous review, I hardly think that requiring Internet Explorer is a substantive reason to avoid this highly intelligent and thorough package. I think most people in the business have better things to do that rehash a tired old argument about microsoft vesus the rest of the computing industry. While I have all but entirely switched to Linux, I can't deny that my career and the careers of most of the people I work with, can be substantially attributed to Microsoft's proliferation over the past twenty-five years. Let's move on.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good course, but thought there was more to it,
By A Customer
This review is from: Complete Java 2 Training Course, The (4th Edition) (Boxed Set) (Paperback)
What I mean by that is I was under the impression that the highly touted Cyber Classroom would be a significant addition to the book. I purchased their C# how to program and felt I was missing something by not having the Cyber classroom portion of that book by the way they and others talked about all you received in it. When I was looking to purhcase this title I decided to get the edition with the Cyber Classroom to get the full benefit as everyone said. I am not trashing the cyber classroom as it does provide all the code samples in the book with many of them accompanied by an audio description explaining what the code does. Also you can click on a lighting bolt and the code will run right from within the Cyber classroom. For me the LiveCode aspect is not a benefit to me as I like to type the code in myself when learning a new language to get ingrained in its syntax, but that's my personal way of working and I can see how it may benefit others so I am not knocking it. Aside from that, the Cyber classroom is really just the book on CD--correction; it does allow you to take an assessment exam after you complete a chapter and keeps track of your score for each exam taken. It isn't a comprehensive tracking of your score; however, just a simple score showing the percentage of the questions you got wrong. I didn't find the assessment exams to be challenging, which isn't bad because their simplicity helps reinforce the points in the chapter. However, when you want to really test your understanding and want to challenge yourself by doing the end of chapter excercises you will be up the creek alone. As stated by another reviewer, you do not get many answers to the excercises at the end of the chapters. The end of chapter excercises in my opinion are what really challenge you and not to have answers to at least half, well, kind of sucks. I realize that this text is used in colleges and all answers cannot be given, however, each chapter has at least 30+ excercises, yet they only give on average answers to 2 - 3 problems in the cyber classroom--and many of these aren't the really challenging ones. With 30+ excercises per chapter I think answers to more that 2 or 3 problems wouldn't kill professors. Kind of kills the challenge aspect. Granted you'll know if you got it right if your program works, but I always like to see how someone else would have solved it and I usually learn more form that.In ending, I WOULD recommend the book but, unless you like not having to type code when learning a language or like to read a book on screen and have the code examples executed at the click of a button, I cannot recommend the entire course--in my opinion it doesn't add all that much to it. If you are an absolute newbie to programming I say go for it though.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Learning Java from the experts,
By Mr K Lawther (United Kingdom (U.K)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Complete Java 2 Training Course, The (4th Edition) (Boxed Set) (Paperback)
Having just purchased your - "The Complete Java™ Training Course" I have found the cyber classroom to be an excellent addition to the book.Prior to purchasing "The Complete Java™ Training Course" I had previously bought the "Visual Basic 6 How to Program" text book. However I was unaware of the cyber classroom add-on to the text books. These are an execellent add-on to the textbooks and worth the extra price, which are available via the companys affiliate website. The book is expertly written, guiding you through all aspects of Java programming whilst providing well explained examples, performance tips, programming tips, error avoidance tips etc. You will strugle to put the book down and refrain from using the quality cyber classroom multimedia CD. Do not fear Java! Learn to work with it, after all you will be learning one of the most sought after skills in the I.T industry.
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