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Title: Java 2 Bible by Aaron E. Walsh, Justin Couch, Daniel H. Steinberg ISBN: 0-7645-4632-5 Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2.54 (13 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Not For Beginners
Comment: I am an experienced programmer, but I found this book difficult. By Page 120, you have been given the Hello World example and by page 323 you have been given the basic syntax. However, alot of the code examples continually use stuff that the reader has not yet been exposed to. Also, no where up to page 323 does the book really explain how you write a basic java class. The chapters cover individual topics, but nothing links the chapters together. The book gives the reader separate building blocks, but little guidance on how to construct a usable program with those blocks. I learned much more at the Sun tutorial site than I did from reading this book.

Rating: 4
Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: As an experienced C programmer I have to say that this book
is a great introduction to Java 2 but it is not for
beginners from my experience. The chapers are written in a
friendly way that makes them easy enough to understand, but
after the first section that covers getting up to speed with
Java in general, Object Oriented Programming concepts, etc
you REALLY have be a programmer to absorb the concepts and
examples.

Starting with chapter 6 the authors take off the kid gloves.
This particular section was the most complex part of the
book for me, and I found it easier to skim through this
collection of chapters lightly at first and then revist
these topics later once I got into the other more hands-on
parts of the book (such as input/output, creating graphical
user interfaces, and networking, etc): plan to make two
passes on the "middle" chapters if you want to memorize them
by heart.

Because the Java language is covered in such detail I found
this book to be a good desk reference for fundamental
concepts, making it a good book for C programmers like me
who want to learn Java, especially when combined with the
free online API specifications. Overall I give it four out
of five stars. Between the book itself and the free online
support site it was defintely worth the $$ since I bought it
used, but be warned it's not for beginners!

Rating: 1
Summary: Not for beginners.. not for experts either.
Comment: This book assumes you know the subject already. The problem is that the book explains things as if the reader is already a Java programmer. How can one read & understand a company's 10Q filing if he didn't know what PE ratio meant? Then it leaves out too many details to be useful to anyone.