If you want a jump-start on learning VisualAge for Java, this video on CD is for you! Step by step, this tutorial course describes visual programming using IBM VisualAge for Java's Visual Composition Editor. Topics include visual and nonvisual Beans, connections, applets vs. applications, code generation, and use of components from the Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) and Swing Set. When you have completed this book, you will know how to use the IDE Workspace, use Class creation windows and smart guides, create new application and applet classes using the Abstract Windowing Toolkit, employ Swing components, drop visual and non-visual component Beans onto the composition surface, connect components using the following connection types: Property-to-property, Event-to-property, Event-to-method, and Event-to-code. You will also understand how to supply parameters to connections, use the Beaninfo page to generate new class features, generate and test code, how to navigate through generated code, and set breakpoints in code and use the debugger, version and export code. This CD set includes IBM VisualAge for Java Professional Edition for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT, Version 3.0.
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Bill O'Farrell is a senior manager in the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. In his career at IBM he has been both a researcher and a development manager on several Java and C++ projects. In addition, he has taught Java programming to a wide variety of audiences. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Syracuse University in 1991, and has numerous publications as well as five patents on object-oriented software technology.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Ultimate IBM VisualAge for Java Tutorial CD (CD-ROM)
I didn't realilze when I bought this that it was CD ONLY; there is no book! I was expecting a book with CD. While a little disappointed at first, (I like the convenience of a book to study anywhere, anytime), I would purchase again.This is the first CD ROM tutorial that I've ever used. I find that it is very easy to use, and that this method of tutoring works very well. The CD consists of a Lotus Screen Cam, which shows you the complete screen motion as the author speaks his tutorial. If you prefer, there is a PDF file with all of his text - you could print all of this out if you so desired - I didn't find that I needed that, nor the PDF files themselves. The CD includes Acrobat reader 4.05, and the Lotus Screen Cam. It also includes VAJ 3.0; I had already purchased 3.02, so didn't install this. I'm very impressed with the tutorial. If you are new to VAJ, it will give you a very strong introduction. I like to Pause the Lotus Player, while building the tutorial within my VAJ, so that I can stay in synch. With all of the screen motions being captured and displayed for you, along with the author's voice details, I am very pleased with the product. I think that this course would only be useful to you if you already have some knowledge of Java, as otherwise the concepts of 'why' the author is doing things will be lost to you. If you are knowledgable in Java, and are looking for an in-depth presentation of VisualAge for Java, then I would recommend this CD-ROM tutorial.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too Little Coverage,
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This review is from: The Ultimate IBM VisualAge for Java Tutorial CD (CD-ROM)
I really wish I could be more enthusiastic about this product - after all I have enjoyed most other books I have that have been published by IBM. However, I have to say that this tutorial barely scratches what one can do with VisualAge for Java. The author basically goes thru two simple applications. The first application shows how to display a duck in a pond, and the second one shows how to create a really simple spreadsheet. For 69 bucks, how about including serialization, jdbc, servlets, RMI? How about showing the real novice how to use the scrapbook? Go to IBM's website and download the tutorials - I bet you'll learn more.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Let's put things in proportion,
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This review is from: The Ultimate IBM VisualAge for Java Tutorial CD (CD-ROM)
I don't want to sound like a party pooper, because most reviews were on the positive side, however...I found the problem with this tutorial is that it's too hands-on, plunges right into the nitty-gritty of VisualAge, which is a very complex and exhaustive. No general outline or overview of what VisualAge is, no logical breakdown of its components and how they interact. You try to follow the narrator, flipping between the tutorial and VisualAge, but if you do something a bit wrong, you're gone, because you have no understanding whatsoever of the product itself. And once you're stuck, you can't go on, because the continuation of the tutorial is enhancing what you've already done, the next example builds on the previous one. I found myself re-installing twice and starting all over again just to get the duck applet working. So I would take it with a grain of salt, and would say you've got a 50% chance of getting something out of this tutorial. Was it worth it ? For me, not really. Could it be for you ? Perhaps, but don't get your hopes too high.
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