Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches someone with no previous programming experience how to create simple Java programs and applets.
It starts out at a lower level than Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, and takes things at a slower pace, focusing on key programming concepts and essential Java basics.
Although the basic structure of the book, and many of its examples, will remain the same in this new edition, the author will make use of dozens of reader comments to make improvements to explanatory text and example programs.
This new edition of the book maintains and improves upon all these qualities, while updating, revising, and reorganizing the material to cover the latest developments in Java and to expand the book's coverage of core Java programming topics.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - teach yourself java
New programmers pan this book because learning to program takes more than 24 hours. CS graduates pan this book because they already know it. Let's pretend for a second that this isn't a Java for experts book, or a computer programming for total neophytes book.
I find that this is a very good and stury backgrounding in Java for people who already know how to program.
It's a hard truth that no matter what book you pick up, learning your first programming language is a rocky ... Read More
Rating: - The eBook digital version is a ripoff!
Although the original idea behind providing the book as a PDF was admirable, the publisher does not allow the digital file to be edited. I can understand setting the security feature for printing due to copyrights, but for those of us that have made the investment into the Full version of Acrobat and use the commenting features extensively, the security settings do not allow the saving of comments made to the file (highlighting, underlining and comment boxes) while reading the file. This pretty much ... Read More
Rating: - Java in 24 hours
Not a bad book.
I would recommend it to beginners, but it is a very slow process of learning, unlike the other books I've read. After all, it is for beginners!
If you do read this book, don't worry if you don't understand it, you will as you read on.
Rating: - A good foundation
I'm coming from a solid VBA background and am now switching gears and decided to learn Java. I found this book to be at a good pace and the humor helps to keep you from becoming too frustrated. It certainly takes more than 24 hours, but I don't think the title was meant literally. It took me about 3-4 months to get through it and that's skipping the last 4 chapters, which deal with graphics & sound, stuff I don't really need yet. I have a day job, which involves programming, so I couldn't do it ... Read More
Rating: - Fustrating
This is the book where I first learnt about arrays and OOP. Starting with an example with the tochararray function was really confusing. This book just fired information. You might like that, but the details are hard to understand.
Even now, I still don't understand OOP.
Functions presented to you aren't really done well. I found too many of the "it'll be later explained in later chapters" way too hard to follow. You aren't even ready for that stuff. Can't you have better examples; examples ... Read More
- teach yourself java
- The eBook digital version is a ripoff!
- A good foundation
- Fustrating
