Java for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

by Dori Smith (Author)

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Product Description
Visual QuickStart Guides are rapidly becoming the easiest, clearest and most sought-after titles for learning complex new Internet technologies. Even a quick glance at web design sites for the non-programmer (like C|net's Content Builder) shows that designers, graphic artists and content-creators want to use Java. The web is filled with content creators who have used a pre-built Java app., and probably not been 100% satisfied with the results. With just enough Java to get going doing something useful, a strict focus on visual Java (meaning using Java to make interface elements for web pages), and a quality guarantee that the Java in this book will work in most - if not all - web browsers, Java for the World Wide Web:Visual QuickStart Guide is sure to be an indispensable guide to the decade's most important new programming language for the web scripter.

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Visual QuickStart Guides are rapidly becoming the easiest, clearest and most sought-after titles for learning complex new Internet technologies. Even a quick glance at web design sites for the non-programmer (like Cnet's Content Builder) shows that designers, graphic artists and content-creators want to use Java. The web is filled with content creators who have used a pre-built Java app., and probably not been 100% satisfied with the results.

With just enough Java to get going doing something useful, a strict focus on visual Java (meaning using Java to make interface elements for web pages), and a quality guarantee that the Java in this book will work in most - if not all - web browsers, Java for the World Wide Web:Visual QuickStart Guide is sure to be an indispensable guide to the decade's most important new programming language for the web scripter.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1st edition (September 11, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201353407
• ISBN-13: 978-0201353402
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,556,778 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent "Get Started" Guide, January 24, 1999

By A Customer

This book does a great job for the first time Java programmer. It's easy to read, Smith has a sense of humor, and she's squeezed in about as much detail as possible while still keeping the book readable in a few sittings. Beware she covers only Java 1.0 and this book is NOT a comprehensive reference but neither should be a problem if your goal is to learn the language from scratch. Smith makes a good argument for sticking to 1.0 for the time being. The book is particularly well suited to HTML programmers looking to use Java applets on their pages. It's also reasonably priced and doesn't resemble a phone book in either size or style--both refreshingly unusual in this genre.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware: Java 1.0, May 17, 1999

By A Customer

It is with sadness that I give this book 1 star. But this book only covers Java 1.0.

Java 1.2 and the Java Foundation Classes have dramatically altered the Java world and I think that it is a waste of time to learn anything about graphical applications or applets under Java 1.0

Other than that glaring problem, the book is lucid and well thought out. It is another fine example of the Visual Quickstart Guides, but it needs to updated to cover the Java Foundation Classes and Swing.

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice Try., December 10, 1999

By	Brian Donnelly (Tigard, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have to say that I am a big fan of Dori Smith and the line of very well done books that go with the name, but "Java, a quick start guide?" Pretty much like saying "Heart Surgery, a quick start guide." This is a good book if you are using a few Java scripts on your website and but don't care about the language or how to program with it. Java goes much deeper than this and even the beginner may get some use out of this book but mostlikely will not learn much. Java is a key word now and this looks like an attempt to cash in on the market. I would also avoid books that say things like "C++ in twenty four hours!"