| Murach's Java SE 6: Training & Reference | 
| Authors: Joel Murach, Andrea Steelman
Creator: Doug Lowe
Publisher: Mike Murach & Associates
Category: Book
List Price: $52.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (15 reviews)
Sales Rank: 31679
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 832
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 1.8
ISBN: 1890774421
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781890774424
ASIN: 1890774421
Publication Date: April 20, 2007
Release Date: April 20, 2007
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Product Description
This book teaches how to develop Java applications at the professional level. It starts by showing how to code, test, and debug everyday business applications that won t crash. It presents object-oriented features like classes, inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism in a way that s both understandable and useful in the real world...perspective that s often missing in Java training. It presents essential Java skills such as working with data types, control statements, arrays, collections, generics, enumerations, exceptions, threads, Swing components, applets, and text and binary files. It covers new Java SE 6 features such as new JDBC features, the StAX XML API, and the built-in Derby database. And it s all done in the distinctive Murach style that has been training professional programmers for more than 30 years.
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 Murach's Java SE 6: Training & Reference December 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has been invaluable for me in coming up to speed in Java and using NetBeans IDE. It helped me significantly in deciding between NetBeans and Eclipse for the IDE I would use in my development. I recommend it highly.
 Review of Java SE 6 November 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't gotten through the entire book as yet. I'm on page 300 or so. What I've read so far has been quite good, and I've picked up several new things about Java. The only negative thing I would say about this book is that once or twice, there have been ideas presented where the author (in my opinion) assumed more Java or OO knowledge than a beginner might have. But, thanks to some other Java resources I have (co-workers), these problems were quickly overcome.
Overall, a great book for beginners.
Murach's Java November 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Easy to read and understand. Downloading the lessons for and using the IDE's could use a little bit more coverage.
 Incredibly bloated and shallow. July 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
What a weird book. I don't program Java, have never been but I've got quite a few years of C++ and C# under my belt. We needed to use some Java-only open source libraries for a project at work, so I figured having a Java reference book would be handy: after all, it can't be 100% identical to C# as they say, right?
Well, this book couldn't fulfill even this modest role: it covers very little, but wastes nearly 6 pounds of dead trees to do it. It takes two pages to explain how to assign a number to a variable. The author uses Windows (!) as a platform of choice and the word "DOS" pops up many times, over and over. It even contains section that teaches you how to use DOS commands like "dir", "copy" and "cd". I am not kidding or exaggerating.
I would understand if it was marketed to teenagers who want to start programming in something, but a book of such shocking size and wall penetrating power can't be possibly aimed at that audience: if someone needs 2 pages explaining the "magic of assigning a value to a variable", one's probably too young to lift this book off the floor.
I covered first 225 pages without seeing any useful information there: every topic is explained in such a shallow manner, that it could be compared to a common-sense knowledge of Java of someone (like me) who never wrote a line of code, but heard other people talk about the language. The book, like many others, uses a sample project that a reader takes on in the beginning and keeps improving upon as he learns new material, but guess what - this book uses a number multiplying program for that purpose: that's right - read two numbers from a console, multiply, print out, repeat.
I am speechless. This is the first time in my life I had to return a book. Yes, Java isn't supposed to be a brain grinder and I expected a super-easy read, but this book is beyond "easy", it redefines an "easy read" by insulting your intelligence, it's that dumb. Heck, one of the exercises calls for documenting a code written for the previous exercise!
It says $52 on the cover, Amazon sells it for $32 and it's available used for about $14 - isn't that telling you something?
Murach's Java SE 6: Training & Reference June 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am very satisfied with whole amazon-purchasing experience, as always ! Book was shipped in solid protecting box and received on time. I would like to say thank you to amazon staff for doing high quality work.
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