Customer Reviews

Introduction to Java Programming: Fundamentals First (6th Edition) (GOAL Series)

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good for a start into programming with no experiance. easy to read. the book is geared to an old JBuilder version but you can skip those parts. the book does lack quite a bit when it comes to class methods but that what the java docs are for. this book give a intro into graphics which is hardly given enough info. It also covers the basics of applets. i would suggest getting the larger verison of this book that has more on gui i/o and data structures.

4 stars for easy reader basic info, and lacking more. you will need another book after this one.

(Bought from cilgor) I needed this book for class when I was a computer science major and I found it easy to follow. I've had other books that I prefer more but for a basic run down to Java, this was pretty good.

I'm a computer engineering major, so I have experience programming (but not too much Java), and I bought this book to help with a summer project I embarked on to try to gain experience with Java. This book is the best I've seen as far as balancing difficulty and detail, and it's very well-organized. Another book I borrowed from a friend (Starting Out With Java) was big and heavy and spent a really long time on the very basic things and I had to read too much to learn anything useful. The Deitel book is very detailed and not structured in a logical way, so it's hard to look up how to do a particular thing. This book fixes both those problems, and I think I will be productive this summer. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who has no experience programming (although I wouldn't recommend Java in general for that), but for anyone who has even a little experience, there's enough basic introduction and has room to grow.

I've had some pretty bad expereinces with textbooks before, but this one was definitely one of the best that I've used.

I already had some basic programming knowledge, so I can't judge how well it explained the basic concepts, but it provided a very good introduction to a programming language that can be overcomplicated, cryptic, and difficult to use.

This books price could not have been beaten. The seller shipped fast and the book showed up as ordered, new! Thanks!!!

Product came in good condition as posted on the site. Fast service! Arrived on time.