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Object-Oriented Programming with Java: An Introduction

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An excellent Java introduction book! I've found that this book is well-organized and written very clearly. The author also goes beyond the level of an introduction book to explain the fundamental object-oriented design and programming by using Java examples and concepts. Major core Java packages, classes, and interfaces are also covered in depth. Even though I'm wring Java codes for living now, I still love to read this kind of book: A combination of academia and industry. Another advanced Java book that I've found excellent is "Object-oriented Software Development Using Java" written by Xiaoping Jia. These authors will make you love to learn Java!

To be honest, most of the things really didn't make sense. Sometimes there is a lot of skipping on information, other times I had to keep on reviewing the material 5 times just to see what the author is talking about. A programmer can not learn programming without having a hand-on approach, and this author uses classes that aren't even shown. How are we supposed to run these programs if we are missing the classes used to run these programs? I suggest a Dietel & Dietel book "How to program in Java"; I had to buy that book in order to understand the analytical approach that Barnes used in his book. That is why I gave this rating a 3 stars, because Barnes does somewhat of a good job explaining, only if you have some kind of background information in programming before.

This is a good book if you follow and complete the exercises. The author has to leave out a bunch of information about java at first but he does an excellent job of developing the lessons as you move on. I'm having a good time with this book learning Java and grabbing the concepts. It will take many years for ANY language to become second nature to someone; especially Java. This is a very good book and WELL worth the price; a nice text from which to learn JAVA. If you don't do the exercises don't plan on learninig anythying.

This is one of the best Java Books i've used. It's verry complete and verry easy to search in.

A note to UKC CS and CSE students.
It will not help with your second year Networks assignment, which is officially 'not a java programming exercise'.