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Sams Teach Yourself JBuilder 2 in 21 Days

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I am really upset that a minimum that i can give is a single star if there was a zero star that i would have given that to this book. This book is just a cheap copy of JBuilder manual.PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR YOUR TIME GOING THROUGH THIS BOOK.

This book is too simple. Starts good with some introductory about the Java language, and as I was reading I was starting to like the book, but suddenly the author wasted too much time teaching you how to use the interface and all that stuff that anybody can learn by it's own. The examples are kindergarten like, and i wanted to skip many of the stuff to reach the end and finish with it. I just tried to read it because I paid for it, but it was dissapointing and I even got depressed reading it. Get a Java 1.2 book and learn from it, JBuilder is a great tool and deserves much better.

The lightest "Teach Yourself ... in 21 Days" book I've ever seen. You'll find no meat here. The best JBuilder book on the market is still Cary Jensen's "JBuilder Essential" (in spite of the fact it is based on JBuilder 1.0). Because there are no meaty JBuilder books on the market, and because there are such excellent (meaty) Java books on the market, spend your money on any or all of these three books (you won't be sorry): (1.)Cay Horstman's "Core Java 1.1" (Volume 1); (2.) David Geary's "Graphic Java 1.1"; (3.)Cay Horstman's "Core Java 1.1" (Volume 2); Additionally, David Geary will soon be releasing two more books which are likely to be top notch, given this author's history.

Unless you know absolutely nothing about JBuilder 2.0, don't get this book. It's an OK startup tuturial for someone who just opened the box and installed the software, but if you're any more experienced than that, get a different book. What I found most annoying was the non-existant components guide. We need more than just a page saying "And here's what the DBSwing component bar looks like...".

It seems the arthor has just copied the summary from JBuilder2 brochure from Borland. If you want to learn JBuilder, don't waste money on this crab. Read developer's guide from Borland comes with the software.

From the first page of the book, too many mistakes for someone trying to learn.

I'm a novice in OO/Java programming. At the moment I'm struggling through chapter 6. Chapter 5 and 6 are really disappointing, even for a novice. Can anybody tell me if the rest is usefull, otherwise I'm going to succumb. Alas.

More pratical examples are needed. A CD would be a great asset. I's very hard to lookup keywords via the index (example: Import keyword isn't listed) etc.

Sorry, it's just your normal lowquality 21 day book, which means you NEVER will use it again after the 21 days has past.

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