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Title: Special Edition Using Java 2 Standard Edition by Chuck Cavaness, Brian Keeton, Jeff Friesen, Joseph Weber ISBN: 0-7897-2468-5 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 27 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Too dense with no conceptual flow
Comment: This book has good breadth, but fundamentally fails to help the reader understand Java.

I am a Java trainer, and have used many books and training material. I recently chose this book for a class because of its breadth. Unfortunately, I had to write a lot of supplemental information to make up for the book's lack of clarity and structure.

A book should simplify key concepts by highlighting key points, using diagrams, etc. This book doesn't do that. It's like a brain dump, where the authors talk and talk about a given topic, but in a way that lacks structure. There is no flow or progression of concepts.

The book also has poor layout. Books should be designed with an eye toward ease of reading. Are key points highlighted? Are diagrams effective? If you're in a bookstore open the book to a random page. Are the highlighted sections important? Is the conceptual outline of the page apparent? For me, the answer is no.

Here's one of the highlighted paragraphs I've chosen at random:
"The ability to specify indexes when working with a List places an additional burden on you as a programmer. You must always ensure that any index you pass to a List method is greater than or equal to zero, and less than or equal to the size of the collection minus one. Each List method that accpets an indx throws an IndexOutOfBoundsException at runtime when this is not the case."

Rather than highlighting this key point with this dense paragraph, the author could have provided a simple diagram and an example. The reader would have understood the point immediately, rather than having to read and re-read a prose explaination.

Diagrams are similarly poor. There are a few diagrams, but they are not effective at communicating concepts. It's as if an editor said "we need a diagram" so someone whipped one out, whether or not it was effective.

In summary, this book has good breadth but is poor at helping the reader understand Java.

Rating: 5
Summary: Good book for Beginner as well as Experienced Programmer
Comment: This is very good book. As I take this book when I wann to Start Java again from Starting point. So can say that I've some knowledege of java and I wann to recall it with some good examples. And also I wann to touch which I never touch like Java Beans, Thearding, networking etc. and I found that this book really helpful for me.
One more thing I wann to say that this book would be more useful if authore cover some more tpoics like security, little bit introduction of servlet, jsp etc.
Anyway, I've full marks to this book.
Pranav

Rating: 5
Summary: If I could give to this 6 starts, then I would give him 10
Comment: I had the great happiness of receiving this book as a gift of a dear friend. I am a beginner in the Java programming. For me, this it is an excellent book, their authors wrote it with a lot of grace and with a lot of ability so that the reader understood it. Don't doubt to buy this book. If I could give to this 6 stars, then I would give him 10.

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