Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days: Professional Reference Edition (Sams Teach Yourself) (Hardcover)

by Laura Lemay (Author), Charles L. Perkins (Author), Michael Morrison (Author)

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Add interactivity and animation to your Web site and turn static plain-vanilla pages into fun, exciting multimedia presentations! This book teaches the basic concepts of object-oriented programming with Java with numerous examples and tutorials to provide hands-on practice creating Java applets. Provides a solid foundation for moving on to more sophisticated Java programming. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
This book/CD-ROM package combines the best Java tutorial with an extensive reference section, plus new coverage of advanced Java programming topics--all in a durable, high-quality hardcover binding. The CD-ROM contains the entire book in electronic form, source code for the book's examples, additional Java applets, Sun's Java Development Kit for Windows, Solaris and Macintosh, and a collection of the best third-party Java development tools.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1296 pages
• Publisher: Sams (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575211831
• ISBN-13: 978-1575211831
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8 x 2.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,342,613 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Teach yourself java in 21 YEARS, December 16, 2000

By	jerry "jhook1" (idaho,usa) - See all my reviews

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

This book never comes close to presenting istself as a stand alone subject for learning java. Especially not in 21 days or 100 days, I would challange if it could be done in a year. This book is poorly written with enormous amount of errors , not just in the text but in the program listing themselves. I doubt if this book was proof read or even if any of the programs where written and carried out to the extreme to see if they really worked. While this book covers a lot of topics there are poor to no examples on any of the material that is covered.

This book alone with the second edition is being used for a subject class for a college level course. The second edition is not as bad as the first , tho , what are the odds of the same program appearing in both books and in different formats and yet neither one will run when you get done. Well you just have to present them to the instructor and ask him to give it a go . oh! it wont run . maybe we ought to throw out the books. Heres an idea lets get hold of the auther , you mean they wont answer there email. WOW , and to think we buy this junk and nobody ever sits down and looks it over. Simply amazing. so if you are interested in java , i know two books at least to stay away from.

i have a library of several books that i use for reference, and i could not at this time recommend one. If there is someone out there who has some great degree of results let me know . It could also help others.

If i had to choose one it would be the " complete reference of java by Naughton / Schildt ". while not the best it does answer a lot of questions.

learing java you need to really be exposed to layouts ,events networking and windows. this book falls short on all accounts.

yes i am still working on java , i like the langauge and will learn it one way or another .

so happy programming to one and all.

do drop me a line

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Assembly line "Teach Yourself" book doesn't teach clearly., January 23, 1998

By	Levi Wallach (Vienna, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

I tried learning Java from this book and failed. Perhaps I shouldn't blame the book but rather my lack of previous experience with object-oriented programming. In any case, this book did not cover object-oriented design sufficiently or clearly enough for it to click. If you already have this background, perhaps this book would be of more use, but if you are trying to learn Java and have never taken C++, Pascal, or any other object-oriented language, I would look for another book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ah, it's OK, May 27, 1998

By A Customer

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

This book is indeed a little difficult to understand. Unless you know C and or C++, it is hard to understand. There are indeed errors in the book. Is this some sort of trickery in order to be able to continue to come out with a 2nd, a 3rd, a 4th, etc. editions?