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Title: Java: First Contact by Roger Garside, John Mariani ISBN: 1-85032-316-X Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 04 September, 1997 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $47.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Not a good choice for First-Year Students
Comment: First off, I'd better admit that I came into programming as a complete novice. I bought this book as the course text for the course actually taught by the Roger Garside. Great, I thought, a course taught by the author.

I was sorely dissapointed. The book is quite good at explaining the concepts behind object-oriented programming, so for philosophical meanderings on the devleopment of objects in programming language, it is quite useful. However, when it comes to actually learning to program, there are errors in example code, vital poitns missed out, annoying diagrams which are meant to replace coding (could the author not be bothered to put both in) and seemingly random errors in the code which make it refuse to compile without spending hours checking for errors (and no, I don't mind doing this- but with my own programs, not with examples!). Buy this book if you have to- it's a compulsory purchase if you're on the course, after all- but if you are a beginner to programming, buy something that will help you learn Java too.

Rating: 5
Summary: best for the newbies
Comment: I have been studying OOP, and can honestly say I could not have passed without the help of this book. Ignore the negatives from those who obviously have Java experience, this is a book for beginners and is honest about it. I have bought 5 books on java and this was the best for a first timer. For those who hate it...It's always easy to slam something like this if you already know what your doing. Remember when you were new?

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent introduction to OO Concepts, programming and JAVA.
Comment: A very well written and easy to understand text on intorduction to OO concepts, programming logic and JAVA in general. Excellent usage of diagrams to get the point across. Probably not suitable for an advanced student or user of JAVA. The authors do let you know that they have assumed that the reader of this book has no programming background. Therefore, if posible, it is wise to read the introduction or the back cover of the book before purchasing it. I do tend to agree with one of the reviewers that if you find this book hard to understand then you do need to rethink about changing your field of study. Do not worry if the examples do not compile the first time, there are many books out there that have similar glicthes. Plus it is a good dose of reality, because there is no software application that hits the mark on the first pass. If you don't have the patience and the tenacity to debug, then you are headed for doom. Do not worry about examples not compiling---- learn the concepts, after that its all a piece of chocolate mousse.

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