Customer Reviews

Computing with Java: Programs, Objects, and Graphics

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I absolutely love this book!!! As a student of computer science, I found the book invaluable in learning Java on my own. It is easy to read, it fully explains diffucult concepts and the examples are detailed. The skill-builder and critical thinking sections are a great way to evalutate and reinforce your knowledge on the various concepts that are introduced. I would whole-heartedly reccommend this book to anyone who needs a good practical knowledge of Java.

Looking for a book to teach with? Looking for a book that discusses data structures, JDBC, Algorithm design, pretty much everything? This is the book for you. I was looking for a text for new classes I am teaching in Java and this one fit the bill. Buy it!

"Dear Mr. Gittleman: Congratulations for publishing a wonderful textbook of "Computing with JAVA: Programs, Objects, Graphics". ISBN: 1-57676-023-5 It is the best book I have seen so far in Java books: I like your sense of humor, interesting examples, assorted end of chapter problems, non-threatening, and easy to follow book. Best wishes, Theresa Park, Instructor Computer Science Department Texas State Technical College

This is a solid textbook. My only issue with it is that I find myself consulting google more often than the book. You'll have to use your own judgement on whether you think you need it for a class or not.

Took a Java class awhile back and purchased this book. Turns out I recently had a need to brush up on Java for work. Thankfully, this book really came through to teach & refresh me the fundamentals as well as the details other books just glossed over (I was flipping furiously through 2 other Java books until Gittleman's book had the answers!). Needless to say, I can't rave enough about this book. Not sure what the other two reviewers were talking about ranking this book as low as they did. Yes, there are a FEW typos, but lets focus here on content. 5 out of 5! Go Beach! Happy Valentine's Day!

The writing in this book is often hard to follow. When they try to break down concepts for you, their analogies are often illogical or simply not helpful. Also, the order of chapters makes very little sense to me (for instance waiting till chapter 7 to introduce User-Interfaces). As a beginning student of Java, i know there are better books out there. I would suggest shopping around for a text that is better thought out.

This is a great book for a beginner Java programmer. Many of the concepts are clearly explained and are easy to understand.

However, considering that this is the Second Edition of this book, one would think that they would have addressed the errors in the programs. It is as if no one bothered to compile these programs after they were written.

For example, in Example 2.9 on pages 53 and 54, line 20 states:
"JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("The result is " + result);"
when it should be:
"JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The result is " + result);"