Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days [Paperback]

Mike Cohn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997 | Series: Teach Yourself in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Cafe In 21 Days is a tutorial in the format of the other best selling Teach Yourself books. It presents information on what Visual Cafe is and how to use it to develop. Since Visual Cafe's programming language is Java, Teach Yourself Visual Cafe in 21 Days also teaches you how to program with Java to create both applets and applications.

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From the Publisher

Teach Yourself Visual Cafe In 21 Days will be a tutorial in the format of the other best selling Teach Yourself books. It will present information on what Visual Cafe is and how to use it to develop. Since Visual Cafe's programming language is Java, Teach Yourself Visual Cafe in 21 Days will also teach the reader how to program with Java to create both applets and applications. - Symantec has finally released the first true visual programming language based on Java, Visual Cafe shipping with very little documentation.

- Teach Yourself Visual Cafe In 21 Days will teach the reader how to use the Symantec Visual Cafe development environment to do Java programming. The book will assume the reader already knows some Java.

- Java is still the hottest programming language.

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Cafe In 21 Days is a tutorial in the format of the other best selling Teach Yourself books. It presents information on what Visual Cafe is and how to use it to develop. Since Visual Cafe's programming language is Java, Teach Yourself Visual Cafe in 21 Days also teaches you how to program with Java to create both applets and applications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Sams Publishing; 1st edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575213036
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213033
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,799,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mike Cohn is the founder of Mountain Goat Software, a process and project management consultancy and training firm. Mike specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques in order to build extremely high performance development organizations. He is the author of "Agile Estimating and Planning," "User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development," and "Succeeding with Agile: Software Development using Scrum."

With more than 20 years of experience, Mike has previously been a technology executive in companies of various sizes, from startup to Fortune 40. He has also written articles for Better Software, IEEE Computer, Software Test and Quality Engineering, Agile Times, Cutter IT Journal, and the C++ Users' Journal. Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, is a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and serves on its board of directors. He is a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer and a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM. He can be reached at www.mountaingoatsoftware.com.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The only book that made any sense, January 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (Paperback)

This is the first book that tied together the "Visual" tools (like Visual Basic, Visual RPG, etc.) with the Java language & Cafe. The UC Irvine instructor did not draw the parallel because he did not use Visual Basic, and did not like HTML -- the UCI instructor could not run a Cafe project! This book does it in step-by-step chapters with practical exercises. You finally see the connection between the "Visual" tools and the java code -- and it makes java easier to learn. So I like it. I just bought an upgrade to Visual Cafe (2.0 to 3.0 database) (Oracle Light), and I need a PC-to-AS400 tool. Cafe will be it. I use Visual Basic 6.0, Visual RPG, Visual J++ I am an RPG pgmr and thus have other paradigms to "overcome" in using OOP. This beats a college course if you don't mind reading.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Book OK but subject Obsolete, February 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (Paperback)

[e-mail] must have spent even less time looking at the book than he claims. My copy of the book (bundled with Symantec Cafe - note correct product title) described release 1.2 even though the bundled software was release 1.51. These versions are based on Java 1.0.2. The product referred to by the afore-mentioned reviewer is Visual Cafe for Java 2.x, based on Java 1.1.x. No wonder the book didn't match the product! The book itself is fair but doesn't get deep enough to be fully helpful; however, because it is a couple of years out of date it belongs back on the shelf next to your books on Fortran II and BAL.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for an introduction, November 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Visual Café 2 in 21 Days (Paperback)

I find that the book is good but only if u skip the first few chapters and head straight to where u start using the Java AWT classes. That was where i started rocking and rolling with Java, whereas i was still in a daze in the first few chapters. Good examples too. One note is to use the correct version of VCafe, I used the version 2.5 and there was no problem at all with the example codes. One grouse is the lack of client/server examples. Otherwise, this is a good buy.