Java 2 From Scratch walks you through the analysis, design and implementation of a functioning application using Java 2. Learn all the critical programming concepts and techniques associated with the language in the context of creating a functioning Stock Market Tracker/Analyzer. Each chapter builds on the previous with a casual tone, in-depth examples, and detailed steps to ultimately create a working stock market tracker. Key areas addressed are user interface design, SWING user interface, Internet communication, file I/O, painting/drawing, and brief introductions to JDBC and RMI.
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Java 2 From Scratch walks you through the analysis, design and implementation of a functioning application using Java 2. Learn all the critical programming concepts and techniques associated with the language in the context of creating a functioning Stock Market Tracker/Analyzer. Each chapter builds on the previous with a casual tone, in-depth examples, and detailed steps to ultimately create a working stock market tracker. Key areas addressed are user interface design, SWING user interface, Internet communication, file I/O, painting/drawing, and brief introductions to JDBC and RMI.
About the Author
Steve Haines is currently a software engineer at Wonderware Corporation where he is contributing his development skills to a new COM based distributed architecture for their forth-coming product line. Prior to that he worked in the online gaming arena at ENGAGE games online developing multiplayer Internet and America Online based games. He attained a Bachelor¿s of Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton and is now completing his Masters of Computer Science with focus on Creative Technologies and Multimedia at the University of Southern California. His publication experience includes writing for SAMS C++ Unleashed, SAMS Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days and SAMS Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days and acting as a technical editor for various Java, C++, Internet, and Game Development books for both Macmillan Computer Publishing and Addison Wesley.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Starting from scratch,
This review is from: Java 2 From Scratch (Paperback)
This is one of the best books I have seen which covers the basics of Object Oriented development, program design and actual Java coding in such an easy to read style. I read the first five chapters from a hospital bed but did not feel lost by not having my PC to try out the examples as they were so well documented. Using a single example program throughout the book provides excellent continuity of purpose as the chapters unfurl but may put some people off buying the book if the end product (a stock market tracker) is of no interest to them - I would say that the techniques are more important than the program - I don't really want a tracker but I couldn't put the book down once I had started to read it. Many of the techniques shout out for further examples but these are freely available from numerous sites on the web - the book is large enough as it is. I would recommend this book to anyone "starting from scratch" as a good all-round primer.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book, but more for experienced programmers.,
By Steve (Dallas Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Java 2 From Scratch (Paperback)
This is a great book for what it is. It is definitely not a beginner-level, just getting into java book, but more for experienced OO programmers who want to learn how to develop applications in Java. I have been looking for an intermediate book like this for a while. This book walks you through the process of how to develop a real application (a stock market tracker/analyzer), and ties it all together nicely from analysis and design, through implementation. The author gives good insight on his thought processes each step of the way. I like the fact that he uses the internet from which to pull off the stock quotes. Hopefully, more authors will follow this lead and give us some example applications that we can use in the real world, instead of a bunch of toy code snippets. The only drawback that I can see to this book is that it stops short as far as using JDBC in a Swing application. I wish the author would have added an extra chapter or two that covered binding Swing components to the database. Can somebody please write a book on this?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I'm pretty much a beginner.... most helpful Java book I own,
This review is from: Java 2 From Scratch (Paperback)
I disagree with those who say this is not good for beginners. I'm the type that I can't learn by just reading and doing aimless examples. This book holds my interest because everything is in the context of "We need to know this because it'll be in our application later..."It's really easy reading because it's written sorta like this really cool professor I used to have used to speak. I've gone through a couple of different Java books. This one is the most helpful because there is CONSTANT reinforcement of the basics throughout the whole book. There are better, more realistic explanations of where things are derived from, and architecture and design concepts. I think this book is TOTALLY for beginners. Even though you are writing a swing app, as a beginner, you still need to know loops, datatypes, exception handling, etc., no matter what you end up doing with Java, and this book takes you through all of it. I think it's best for beginners who are willing to do it 'cover to cover'. I don't think it's wonderful as a reference, 'cos it's not laid out that way.
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