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Visual J++ with CDROM

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I bought this book not to learn Java, but to understand the Visual J++ interface. The book is not only littered with typing mistakes, many of the codes in CD are not the same as shown in the text. Often they do not run. Don't expect to learn Java from this book. Try any other book.

THE BOOK IS USEFUL AS A REFERENCE, ESPECIALLY FOR USING VISUAL J++ WINDOWS AND HAS A USEFUL LISTING OF "METHODS" AND "DEBUGGING" TECHNIQUES. OTHERWISE YOU WILL NOT LEARN JAVA FROM THIS BOOK. YOU SHOULD KNOW OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN PRIOR TO READING THIS BOOK.

This book was rushed to press and it shows. Most of the book talks about how you should use DAO to save data into databases. Chapter 12 starts off by saying that although there are I/O functions you should only use DAO to save data. It then proceeds to talk about the I/O functions for 29 pages and then spends less than a page talking about DAO.

I bought this book last night and just barely started looking at it and found all kinds of problems. #1 The book ships with a CD and the author claims that Internet Explorer 3.0 is on the CD, but when I looked it was version 2.0 #2 Up front the author states that the book was based on a beta version of Visual J++ which is now up to version 1.1, so this book is hopelessly out of date.