Professional Java: Fundamentals

by Shy Cohen, Tom Mitchell, Andrés González, et al.

For programmers who are familiar with the concepts and techniques of another language who want to move quickly to writing Java applets and applications. The book starts with a rapid but comprehensive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861000383
• ISBN13: 9781861000385
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent reference, no-nonsense summary

Fantastic book. Pithy style, very readable, no fluff, excellent as a reference. Anyone coming to Java from C++ should get this book. About the only thing I would do to improve it would be to have at least a short chapter on database access.

BEST BOOK TO START WITH...

This is one of the first books I bought to get an understanding of Java and how it is comprable to what I already know of C/C++. This book is the perfect starting point, giving every comprable declaration to C/C++. Kudos to the authors, can't wait for a more up-to-date version though.

Old but good

Even though this is one of my oldest Java books I keep going back to it. I wish it would be updated for the new Event model and swing however. The coverage of the 1.0 JDK is very good and I still go back to the gridbag description and examples when I get confused.

Good book - out of date now (1998)

Excellent book, but now that Swing is moving ahead of AWT, this book is useless for GUI. But as for the basics, it's an complete book. Good for someone who already knows a programming language

A concise tool for Real-World Java Development

DON'T READ THIS BOOK unless you are ready to drastically improve your JAVA development skills. I believe I have read EVERY Book on Java yet published and I can say without hesitation that this is the most applicable development reference I have seen. The flavor is professional rather than being academic. Each chapter surgically describes techniques which will help an average developer become solid and a good developer spectacular.