Java Programming for Dummies [Paperback]

Donald J. Koosis (Author), David Koosis (Author), David S. Koosis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 25, 1997 | Series: For Dummies

Java language is popular and developers want to take advantage of all the new capabilities offered by Java. This book describes how to create Java enhanced Web pages by including animation, games and other interactive content. The book begins by describing how to download Java from the Internet along with easy-to-follow configuration instructions from e-mail. Java language not only helps developers create enhanced Web pages, but can also be used as a general purpose language for stand-alone non-Internet programming. In this text, users will find out about data types and the basics of object-oriented programming. Users will find out how to make the jump from HTML to programming in Java and the enclosed CD should make this task even simpler by enabling the reader to download all the sample code from the book on to their PCs.

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About the Author

About the Authors Donald J. Koosis, owner of ISC Consultants, has been developing materials to help people understand computers for more than 20 years. David Koosis is a native citizen of cyberspace. He helps computers understand people by writing programs in Java, Delphi, C++, and other unspeakable tongues. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Minds Inc; 2nd edition (June 25, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764501410
• ISBN-13: 978-0764501418
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #766,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this book at all costs., December 20, 1999

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Rich Voigt (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java Programming For Dummies (Paperback)

The title of the book says it all. I was a dummy to buy this book. If you want to learn Java, this book is not for you. I good ground-level book is "Teach Yourself Java" by Joseph O'Neil. A good 2nd book is "Just Java" by Peter van der Linden.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars admittedly quite bad..., March 27, 2000

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Adam Taylor (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java Programming For Dummies (Paperback)

I had high hopes for this book, after flicking through a lot of the Java books in the bookstore, this one really appealed to me because of the large text and nice diagrams. And while the book was pleasently easy to understand (most of the time), it just doesn't flow very well. I found that around page 130-140 I was finding out the stuff I was wanting to know within the first few pages. They also throw in a chapter on HTML in the most inappropriate place. This book seems VERY rushed, and this is obvious from the large number of errors. I was stuck on my code for a number of hours, before I got help from someone on IRC... they were like "uhh WHY does Switch always have a capital S?" and I replied "because this stupid book told me to *sigh*. Even the bonus pull-out "cheat sheet" that summarizes the whole book has at least one missing semi-colon. Trust me, get something a bit more... concise.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for ambitious dummies, January 8, 1998

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[e-mail] (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java Programming for Dummies (Paperback)

Java Programming for Dummies is probably one of the most ambitious books in the Dummies series. The book gives an excellent introduction to Java programming, mainly covering web applet programming.

The writing style of the authors, Donald J. Koosis and David Koosis, perhaps isn't as funny as those of other Dummies-writers, but what they lack in the joke department is weighed up by nice and easy-to-read explanations of difficult subjects. They have concentrated most of the text on how to program web applets, a wise choice considering this is an introductury text on Java programming.

Even though this is a book for the absolute beginner in Java programming, the subjects are so well and thoroughly explained that the book can be used as a reference later on! My only complaint is that the book's covers should specify that the reader should have at least some programming experience. I soon understood that without my sparse knowledge of Visual Basic, I wouldn't have understood the programming concepts as fast as I did. Perhaps this shows that Java programming isn't suitble for Dummies right away. But this book makes Java programming understandable for us dummies too!