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by Michael Sikora (Author) "The Java language was released in 1995 at the time of explosive growth in the Internet..." (more)
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"Java: Practical Guide for Programmers efficiently gives the experienced programmer a turbo jumpstart on the Java language. Readers will be surprised how fast they can grasp the language essentials. My students have been searching for this book for years!"
--An Ngoc Lam
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"Java: Practical Guide for Programmers efficiently gives the experienced programmer a turbo jumpstart on the Java language. Readers will be surprised how fast they can grasp the language essentials. My students have been searching for this book for years!"
--An Ngoc Lam
Sr. Software Engineer, 3PARdata Inc.
Computer Science Instructor, University of California at Santa Cruz

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  • Paperback: 150 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (January 6, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1558609091
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558609099
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,180,628 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Java for self-starters, May 11, 2003
If I could only recommend one book to an experienced programmer who wanted to learn Java it would be this one. It's only 170 pages long and it doesn't contain anything that's unnecessary. But it does cover syntax, flow control, classes and methods, inheritance, exception handling, file I/O, GUI's, collections and threads. That's genuinely Java in a nutshell.

The author can offer such a stripped-down book, of course, because he assumes that the reader already understands programmatic flow control and objects, and can follow a basic inheritance hierarchy without tedious explanation.

Java isn't a difficult language: it can merely be made to seem so by textbooks that bury simple facts under mountains of verbiage. I hope other authors will take Zbigniew Sikora's "Java: Practical Guide for Programmers" as a model for textbooks for busy people.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A CONCISE Java Grammar!, June 1, 2006
I love this little one. From time to time, between working through and losing myself in half dozen or more heavy tomes of Java book, I would come back to this little one to get a grip of fundamentals and essentials. The book is concise and no nonsensical. I also like the banking application sample code. Practical enough. Who doesn't bank?
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4.0 out of 5 stars quickly learn Java?, September 23, 2005
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Indeed, Sikora offers a quick start to learning Java. He eshews an exhaustive enumeration of every core class in J2SE. Instead, he takes several high level topics and explains which common classes deal with these. A question arises. Can you indeed learn Java from so slender a book? Perhaps. Sikora teaches a core functionality. Made easier if you have already programmed in some other language.

For graphics, he leads you right into Swing. No time wasted on the earlier and inferior AWT classes.

For input/output, Java is more powerful than C or C++, but concomitantly harder to use. The coding is far more verbose, compared to a simple printf() or scanf() in C, for example. The minimal descriptions in Java given here are admirable in how he found the essence of enough to be useful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good for experienced coders
As the book's title shows, it's just a guide, a simple guide that you can not expect too much details out from it. Before learning Java, I am a Delphi coder. Read more
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