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Simply Java Programming: An Application-Driven™ Tutorial Approach

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This is a text book such as a high school or junior college might use to support a Java class. There are lots of excercises, the programs come quickly. But the book does a poor job of teaching the basic precepts of Java.

As a compulsive computer programming autodidact, I rate *Simply Java* the best computer language book I have ever read. Java is a hard language to learn. Most books get you bogged down in abstract exercises. *Simply Java* gets you writing practical GUI applications almost immediately. It's worth every penny. I'm going to stop writing this review right now and study another chapter.

I have been a mainframe developer for 16 years and very resistant to switch to objected oriented programming. Let me tell you something: "Simply Java Programming" has changed my attitude. For the first time, I finished a compuer book from cover to cover and enjoyed every bit of it!!! I've recommended the book to my colleagues and one of them just purchased the same book yesterday.

What I like most about this book is the practical / tutorial approach which got me interested in the JAVA world.

I'm an experienced C++ programmer with access to JBuilder version 5. I did most of the examples and learned Java along the way. I was able to contruct simple GUI tools for my job as a software engineer based on the examples from the book.

The inside is beautifully layed out in color. It's one of the reasons the book is expensive.

I am having trouble getting the database examples(ATM&Bookstore) to work. So close to perfection as a learning tool. I imagine there would be more frustration if I did not know how to debug from an IDE. Subtract one star if you are not an experienced programmer with a proper IDE.

This book was almost new and it came very quickly. I am please with the used books that I have been buying through Amazon

Somehow, the book never arrived. But when informed, the company immediately refunded the purchase price. Their while the book was not received, the refund without hassle was appreciated.

I absolutely adored this one. The organization was amazing, the book advanced to each new level in tiny baby steps with the option of a full-blown tutorial in which every step is thoroughly explained and illustrated, many exercises, charts, etc. Highly recommended.

A wonderfully helpful book. Some of the directions don't work, such as copying key files to hard disk, unless you ignore the autoplay features on the disk. A few of the graphics are confusing as well as directions being a little too vauge. In spite of that, there is enough clear, concise information to let a person of average intelligence work their way throuigh the lessons and learn Java, with or without formal instrution.