Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9780131482029 ISBN: 0131482025 Label: Prentice Hall PTR Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 784 Publication Date: August 27, 2004 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Sales Rank: 94534 Studio: Prentice Hall PTR
Product DescriptionBook Description Completely revised and up-to-date coverage of Generic programming, restrictions and limitations, type bounds, wilcard types, and generic reflection Swing GUI development, including input validation and other enhancements Exception handling and debugging, including chained exceptions, stack frames, assertions, and logging Streams and files, the new I/O API, memory-mapped files, file locking, and character set encoders/decoders Regular expressions using the powerful java.util.regex package Inner classes, reflection, and dynamic proxies Application packaging and the Preferences API The seventh edition of Core Java- 2, Volume I, covers the fundamentals of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE-). A no-nonsense tutorial and reliable reference, this book features thoroughly tested real-world examples. The most important language and library features are demonstrated with deliberately simple sample programs, but they aren't fake and they don't cut corners. More importantly, all of the programs have been updated for J2SE 5.0 and should make good starting points for your own code. You won't find any toy examples here. This is a book for programmers who want to write real code to solve real problems.
Cay S. Horstmann is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University. Previously he was vice president and chief technology officer of Preview Systems Inc. and a consultant on C++, Java, and Internet programming for major corporations, universities, and organizations.
Gary Cornell has written or cowritten more than twenty popular computer books. He has a Ph.D. from Brown University and has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Laboratories, as well as a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Easy to follow
This is my favorite Java book. Although I have a background programming in C++, I find many of the other Java books to be cryptic or assume you wish to develop for the web. This book is straightforward and easy to read. I especially found the comparisons between Java & C++ interspersed throughout the text to be helpful.
Rating: - Good started book into the world of Java
I have an older version of this book but it covers many of the core features of the language. This is a good book if you are looking to start
programming in Java.
Rating: - Good but not great!
I only wish the authors would have understood that it's better to write variables and declarations first and then use them later in the code. All the code examples are funnily written with the use of the variables first only to wonder from where they come from and later to realize that they're are at the end!!!!
Also author has tried to pack too much of details which can be halved.
Herbert schildt is a better option.
But still the books is readable for beginners.
Rating: - Why is the Kindle version so expensive?
I have an earlier version of this book and would love to get a Kindle version for reference. But... You save $3 by getting the digital version despite the fact that there is no shipping, storage, or printing costs?
WTF?
At $10 a piece I'd love to fill a Kindle with dozens of coding reference books that are filling up my library, but at $30+ a piece it's just not worth it.
Rating: - Good but not great
Whenever I buy a book that teaches programming I always compare to the classic C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software) which is my standard for how a good programming book should be written. Inevitably most books suffer by that comparison.
Apart from lack of conciseness the main problem here is the quality of the examples. The examples in this book are very basic illustrations of the concepts so working through them is a waste of time because you won't learn much from them. ... Read More
- Easy to follow
- Good started book into the world of Java
- Good but not great!
