Amazon.com Review
True to other volumes of this series,
How to Program Bongo is a clearly written, easy-to-follow tutorial filled with plenty of color screen shots, code examples, and helpful demonstrations. Programmers who are new to Marimba's Bongo, the creation platform for Castanet content channels, would do well to work through this book. The attractive guide begins with an introduction to Bongo and its interface, providing a step-by-step lesson in the creation of a "test widget." All of the book's other chapters follow this learn-by-example approach and finish with a helpful summary to review the information. The lessons take you through each step in the creation of your own Castanet channel, The Fruit Shop Channel, from conception to launch. Advanced programmers may also want to consider a more comprehensive reference as a supplement to this volume, but if you like to learn by example and want to get started quickly, this is the book for you. The included CD-ROM contains a trial version of the Bongo software plus all of the sample code and lessons from the book.
From the Publisher
Bongo is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) builder that allows teams of developers to collaborate on a project in real time. Following the format of the successful How to Program series, this full-color guide shows readers how to use this popular interface to create eye-catching Web applications in HTML or Java. It's the perfect resource for programmers, scripters, and visual designers who need to master this popular interface-easily. - CD-ROM is packed with a trial version of Bongo, sample projects, code from the book, and Java class GUI libraries