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Title: J2ME: The Complete Reference by James Keogh ISBN: 0-07-222710-9 Publisher: Osborne/McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 27 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simple. Clear. Straightforward.
Comment: I have several books on J2ME. Yet, as good as those books are, I've found myself using only this book. This book does not simply gloss over or "introduce" you to concepts. Every chapter provides enough coverage to really get you programming. Keogh is informative in his concise writing style. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: J2ME from the Inside
Comment: Keogh deals with the obvious and subtle features of J2ME programming in an intelligent and helpful manner. He has an excellent sense of knowing when to slow down and go into depth on a topic. Reading this book greatly added to my appreciation and understanding of J2ME programming features. This book go far beyond what is available in online and is a must buy for professional J2ME programmers. It is the best reference I've seen in my 15 years of programming.
Rating: 2
Summary: Wordy, overly contrived, boring
Comment: The main problem with this book is that it is excessively wordy. Every single example is introduced with several pages of text. Every single time Keogh writes that any exceptions generated in the try block are caught by the catch block. Yeah... thanks a lot for that great piece of advice. After these several pages of text there is a box with about 10 to 20 steps that he suggests to accomplish the discussed task. Invariably these begin with:
1. Declare references to classes
2. Create instances of classes and assign those instances to references
3. a whole bunch more oversimplied pieces of garbage
My point is that Keogh puts in so much extra junk into this book that it is difficult to read. You generally have to read 5 pages to learn what one method does. Any intermediate to experienced programmer (not necessarily in java or j2me) will quickly become frusturated and beginners will too after a hundred or so pages. This book is nearly 800 pages long and could easily fit in 300 pages.
Another problem with this book is that the examples are overly contrived. Also it would be useful if Keogh constructed a small box that would stand out from the text for each method that he describes. This would discuss the parameters, return types, effects, and such. However, he does not do this. He discusses these types of things in several paragraphs of writing. On a minor note Keogh's variables do not follow official sun naming conventions (which doesn't really matter but someone writing a textbook should try to use good habits). That and his treatment of exceptions is generally very poor (always writes catch(Exception e) { // do something } which is poor because you in general want more specific information about the exception so it can be better handled).
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Title: Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME, Second Edition by Jonathan Knudsen ISBN: 1590590775 Publisher: Apress Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications by Michael Juntao Yuan ISBN: 0131405306 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 20 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Mobile and Wireless Design Essentials by Martyn Mallick, Martyn Mallick ISBN: 0471214191 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 23 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Java Development on PDAs: Building Applications for Pocket PC and Palm Devices by Daryl Wilding-McBride ISBN: 0201719541 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: J2ME Game Programming by Martin J. Wells ISBN: 1592001181 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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