Introduction to Java Programming, Comprehensive Version (7th Edition) | 
| Author: Y. Daniel Liang
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
List Price: $115.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 85306
Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 2
ISBN: 0136012671
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780136012672
Publication Date: May 12, 2008
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Condition: New and unread 7th edition paperback. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine uncreased. Cover clean, crisp, and bright.
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Product Description
Groundbreaking fundamentals ? first approach enables readers to understand the basics before being introduced to more challenging topics. Liang offers one of the broadest ranges of carefully chosen examples, reinforcing key concepts with objectives lists, introduction and chapter overviews, easy-to-follow examples, chapter summaries, review questions, programming exercises, and interactive self-test. Now uses standard classes only. Offers new chapters on data structures, JSF for visual Web development, and Web services; includes a new standalone chapter on the full GUI library. Uses UML diagrams in every example starting chapter 8. Includes additional notes with diagrams. Comprehensive coverage of Java and programming make this a useful reference for IT professionals.
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 Easy read September 19, 2008
I've never liked reading tech books but this one I haven't fallen asleep to. Not sure if it's the book or because I'm reading it at the gym. In general the book is easy to understand, has good notes, cautions and examples. I'm however really annoyed with their examples with one character method and variable names. Somehow it makes it harder to read. I find myself stopping and saying to myself, where is that stupid A() or B() or a, b variable again? Where did they declare that? Were they trying to save money by printing one letter instead of a word?
 maybe its the learning style August 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I saw Dream a Little's review and came to the conclusion it may be peoples learning style that determines if they like this book. I am new at programming and the book used in the college course I took was Deittel's 7th ed. Java How to Program. This book left me with a lot of unanswered questions that other books I had checked out from the library could not answer. I was about to give up when I stumbled upon this book and was amazed and wishing I had found it sooner in the semester.
I found it explained a lot of the basics very clearly. It also had a lot more understandable examples given. Even though Deittel's book is over 1500+ pages it came nowhere near as good as the examples I found in Liang's approx 700 pages.
I was a bit spooked at the price when I bought it, wondering if I was going to regret it. But after using the book I concluded this maybe one of those instances where you get what you pay for.
Liang uses a lot of diagrams to show how the pieces fit together as well as simple to understand explanations.
If you are already a programmer in Java then I doubt this is worth the price, but for the beginner/novice who likes to see how the pieces fit together and wishes to understand why things go in the order they do, then this maybe the book for you.
If I later move to another language, I will be looking to see if this author has anything written in that category as well.
 Good book, very informative February 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Got this book for an object oriented programming class. I have had very little programming experience, but the book has helped greatly in both learning Java and learning some of the fundamentals of coding.
 Dry and Heavy December 18, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book has an extremely dry writing style and often does not explain things well to a beginner. Additionally, the book is very "fat" and heavy especially when carrying it around or to class.
The best programming book ever . October 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book motivated by the good reviews that i saw on amazon. I was very pleased not only with the wealth of information(Fundamentals, OOP, MVC, JDBC, JSP/Servlets, JavaBeans, Swing/Advanced Swing, Collections etc ), but also from the presantation which is consice and very easy to follow. This was the text that did it for me. I struggled with other texts and the presentation was always missing something to say the least. Thanks to this book i was able to move to the world of J2EE and my biggest problem was dealing with application servers than with the java language itself.
My current position demands some C# .Net development and once again i am struggling with horrible incomplete Books that neglect to provide the hole code assuming previous knowledge.
I thought that may be Liang has written something about C# (Unfortunatelly not), but i was sad to see that there is
some critism which i consider unfair -not so much for the author but -for those who are trying to learn java.
I dont Know how to strech this more but listen: There is no better intro
book in programming. May be an experienced teacher has objections about the right positioning of the chapters but believe it or not after reading the first 7 chapters you are able to skip to any chapter you want(At the beginning of the book there is a flow chart that helps you guide your study according to your needs). Also dont forget that it is a programming book which tries to teach tough theoritical ideas in a practical way and dont fool yourself that there is a
way for doing this without your ability to understand.
Finally i saw that someone suggests a well-Known book instead of Liangs. I already own that book and its really confusing . A ton of information mixing together without making a specific point. If you dont beleive me just check the review for the book.
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