Teach Yourself Java 1.1 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) [Paperback]

Laura Lemay (Author), Charles L. Perkins (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1575211424 | ISBN-13: 978-1575211428 | Publication Date: April 1997 | Edition: 2nd

This updated bestseller is the definive guide to learning Java 1.1. Teach Yourself Java in 21 days, Second Edition carefully steps you through the fundamental concepts of the Java language, as well as the basics of applet design and integration with Web presentations. By the time you finish this book you'll have a good understanding of the Java language and how to design Java applets, you'll know how to create and use Java applets, and you'll have a solid foundation for creating more sophisticated Java programs in the future.

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This updated bestseller is the definitive guide to learning Java 1.1. Teach Yourself Java 1.1 in 21 Days, Second Edition carefully steps you through the fundamental concepts of the Java language, as well as the basics of applet design and integration with Web presentations. - Learn the basics of object-oriented programming and Java development

- Create stand-alone cross-platform applications

- Add interactivity and animation to your Web sites with Java applets

Product Details

• Paperback: 775 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Sams Publishing; 2nd edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575211424
• ISBN-13: 978-1575211428
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,663,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for first 13 days......rest crap, September 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Java 1.1 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

The book is very good for beginners. Lemay has done a nice job. The first 13 chapters written by Lemay are too good. However things get horrible after that. Perkins has done a poor job in his part of the book. The chapter on Multithreading is extremely weak.It finishes off in a few pages and does not even mention wait()/notify(). After chapter 13 the more further one reads the more bad the writing becomes. The chapter on JNI is absolutely incomprehensible. However the last chapter on JVM is good.Some important topics are not even mentioned in this book for none of the util classes like vector etc is covered. AWT is covered in 2 chapters but more detail is required . Some important concepts are not given like how to clone a object or how to use a StreamTokenizer class. The chapter on I/O has been just copied from API documentation -- don't try to learn I/O from this book. The networking chapter is also very poor. Too much focus on applets. No mention of the date and time classes.

Apart from these, advanced topics are not covered in this book : like JDBC, JavaBeans, RMI or the newer 1.2 APIs like Swing,2D,EJB,JTS etc. But I will not complain about that because it is a beginner's book and there are are specialized books for each of the latter topics. Considering all these shortcomings, I will still recommend any beginner to buy this book because overall it is a good book. In fact, many may get angry at me if I say this, but still in my opinion the basic part of Java in this book is better covered than even Core Java (I have read it). Also the book is much cheaper than other beginner's book on Java. Overall a good buy . By the way, if you learn Java from this book, don't forget to buy the companion book: Teach yourself More Java in 21 days by Morisson.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Are you a beginer in JAVA ????, June 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself Java 1.1 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

Currently I am a freshy in college and taking computer science but the problem is I wasn't much familier with all these computer languages, but I did know Visual Basic and pascal very good and had work with these 2 programming languages. I am taking java corse in schoool next semister so I thought I would just get my hands on java and see what it is and I ended up buying 3 books on java and what I found was that this book is great for beginers, Again ONLY GOOD FOR BEGINERS, the compiler (jdk) which comes with this book is not user freindly but you always can download the newer and much better version of jdk from sun.java.com ...... that's what I did. Well after all if you have a little bite of programming knowledge in VB, C or pascal this book will teach you JAVA, I am talking about JAVA... but see this book claims that you can finish it up in 21 days but try not to finish up in 21 days, I finished up in about 2 months, java is not like VB you have to spend some time with it and just play with it. I can Say now that I know JAVA.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Java in 21 Days 1.1, April 1, 2000

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KAMLESH DHAIRYAVAN (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself Java 1.1 in 21 Days (Teach Yourself in 21 Days) (Paperback)

I would say The Beginning is very good for people having no concept of OOPS and want to start with Java programming specially Laura Lemay, I would say is one of the best autor and having given good practical examples. However as soon as Charles L. Perkins takes over we are loosing our tracks totally. It cannot be useful because even a simple thing has made so complicated that it will cause you to think as if it is very difficult and there are no examples which you can try and understand. I am not sure want author is trying to achieve. I would suggest to new learners please don't even think of reading Charles L. Perkins portion, it will misguide you and you may loose your further interest in Learning Java