Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762 EAN: 9780521658928 ISBN: 0521658926 Label: Cambridge University Press Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 364 Publication Date: August 13, 1999 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Sales Rank: 1007082 Studio: Cambridge University Press
Rating: - Good idea, but bad execution
After reading the first chapter, I was looking forward to the rest of the book thinking that for once, I was going to see authors not insult mainframe COBOL programmer's intelligence. Then the book falls apart. There are examples that don't work, misinformation (both found in Chapter 4) and confusing coding examples with little explanation of how it all hangs together. Don't waste your money on this volume.
Rating: - Some Reflections on COB / Java
A couple of thoughts, while I'm 2/3 through the book: - Fully grasping chapters 2 & 3 is essential. I found that simply reading them resulted in little retained info. Going back through them, making detailed notes, took only one afernoon and it really stuck. ymmv
- Chapter 3 - the intro to Java - contains the fewest COB concepts and code equivalents. I thought it would be interesting to express the class program example as a called COBOL program (they sort of half did it). ... Read More
Rating: - Haven't read it
The only thing I know is that the author, E. Reed Doke is a pretty poor JAVA teacher, so I don't know how he can explain it in a book.
Rating: - From COBOL to JAVA
I have programmed in COBOL and other 'mainframe' languages for almost 30 years. I have also done some programming on PC's in Access, Visual Basic, FoxPro and Visual FoxPro. About one year ago I became interested in JAVA. I then began to search for a book that did not require you to have C++ experience (which I do not have). Then, one night when I was checking out JAVA books on Amazon, I stumbled over 'JAVA for the COBOL Programmer'. I read the reviews and I decided to purchase it. This book ... Read More
Rating: - WAS a good book . . .
The authors did a fantastic job of explaining similarities and differences between COBOL and JAVA, and even did a decent job of providing a good intro to object-oriented design. The examples, while being simple, are nonetheless well conceived and can easily be related to. I would unconditionally recommend this book to anybody trying to transition from COBOL to JAVA . . . except . . . it's out of date. It's based on the old JAVA 1.1, and there were major changes going to JAVA 1.2 (SWING being the ... Read More
- Good idea, but bad execution
- Haven't read it
- From COBOL to JAVA
- WAS a good book . . .
