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Swing: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guide (Osborne Mcgraw Hill))

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This book is well organized and thought out. It is written clearly. It does not waste time with Java primers and it avoids excessive verbiage. Concepts are built logically, step by step and each has a clear complete example to illustrate. I own several books on Swing, and this one is by far the best introduction to the API.

You've got it, I am a Rookie/Greenhorn in Java. Yeah, I got my SCJP cert 5.0 two weeks ago, but I do not know a thing about Swing because it is not required for the exam.

Then I looked into getting the SCJD certification. My research indicated I need to know Swing (Oh-oh), RMI, Threading ...

Most Swing books out there assume you already know something about Swing, which I do not. (So when I start reading those books, I've got confused.) However, this book is different. I started reading after I passed the SCJP exam and find it very easy to follow.

The way I read the book is I follow each example and code it in a text editor. (The SCJD exam allows you to use an IDE, but the code cannot be auto generated by the IDE. So it is safer to use an editor like Notepad++) The example works, and there are step by step instructions for you to follow. Also, the code is explained, alomst line by line, making learning very easy, especially for a Rookie like myself.

I know I will not be an expert on Swing after I finished the book, but at least I'll probaly know enough to take to exam, and may be start reading the other more advanced Swing books.

While the Netbeans has a decent Gui builder. It's great to understand what it is doing. This book covers the basics of building a gui interface extremly well.

Things that were not 100% understood in the gui builder - are obvious now.

Was very pleased with this purchase.

If you like Hebert Schildt's style of teaching it'll be good to know tha the book covers all the essentials of Swing. Advanced Java knowledge (Architeture and "culture") and advanced programming skills are required and previous experience with interface design is also important for understanding the whole concept.

Don't buy this book unless you meet these requirements. It's a begginer's guide for the people that never worked with GUIs ***for Java*** but do understand the generic concept behind GUI development. If you meet all requirements it's worth every penny.

Hebert Schildt as always, does a in-depth analysis of everything that is presented which is great for the tech-savvy people but sometimes becomes boring.

Overall, it's an excellent book.

Even though almost all Java IDE's bring a well developed user graphic interface it's prioritary to have a good knowledge on what Swing's about and its capabilities. Moreover you want to know about event handling and how to deal with events.
So, if you are looking to enter and to "have" a very good idea on what Swing does involve and how to dance with it, this is a very good book.
I personally like very much how Osborne-McGrawHill's book are faced and the way they present the information. The author seems to be an autohority within the C, C++ and Java programming environments.
I'm not finished yet with the book, I have some chapters remaining by this date, but the book has been really good so far.
I encourage you to read it whether you are interested in learning Swing.

When you want to be sure you use corectly the swing technology you need some tutorial which would also take you through all the basic possibilities of this technology.
After reading this book you get the confidence and experience in using of all the most important basics and that is the point. For the time being I do not know other book for beginners to acomplish such mission. Very good book.

Swing, A beginner's Guide is great for a gentle introduction to Swing. I found it less intimidating than other Swing books. However, I did find that I needed more depth, but after reading this book I could absorb what more advanced books had to offer. I would recommend this book for someone new to GUI programming.

This book is excellent for getting started. With a little bit of Java background, you can use this book to start building more than just basic GUI components. Using this book in combination with NetBeans and Eclipse, I have been able to build screens using almost all of the components covered in this book. As a getting started guide I give this book 5 stars. It doesn't cover the more powerful applications of Swing. It is not meant to be an all-encompassing reference, but covers all the basics extremely well.

Use this book to get started, and use online references and other books to delve more deeply into the topic of building Swing GUIs.

Does just what the title says "A Beginner's Guide" and does it well.
Easy to follow examples and covers what a beginner needs.
It does not tell you how to make a gui application, but if you are using an IDE with gui generating capability like NetBeans, you really don't need that.
What I needed was a book that explains the gui elements and how to use them and how to code your actions for them and this book does a great job of doing that.
Excellent job.

Un altro interessante libro di Shildt.

E' un libro ideato per chi si avvicina la prima volta alla creazione di una GUI con Swing, ma e' utile anche come riferimento (anche se non si addentra in argomenti molto avanzati).

Vengono trattati tutti i componenti Swing in maniera molto chiara. C'e' molto codice d'esempio.

consigliatissimo!

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