Description: This book gives nice coverage of the Java language with particular focus on the new Collections. This book also has nice coverage of threads and several chapters devoted to user interface related matters - swing, servlets, applets, etc. What is particularly refreshing with this book is the large number of complete and reasonable examples (which was a major deciding factor for my purchase of this book). I have used several other Java books - including the O'Reilly series and feel they do not compare in ease of use to this book. Although the depth in some areas could be greater, (as evidenced by entire Java books devoted to Threads, I/O, etc.) as a language reference this book is unsurpassed. You can usually find enough information in the book to give you a reasonable idea how to use some element of the language. This book is definately a nice supplement to the Java docs. The author also does a nice job of pointing out important differences between Java 1.1 and Java 1.2.
ISBN:
0072224207
Release Date:
13 August, 2002
List Price:
$34.99
Author:
Herb Schildt, Herbert Schildt
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
Average Visitor Rating:4.26 (out of 5)
Number of Ratings: 16 Votes
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