Murach's Beginning Java 2, SDK 1.4
by Andrea Steelman
20 chapters, 691 pages, 296 illustrations, CD included,
ISBN-10: 1-890774-12-X; ISBN-13: 978-1-890774-12-7
Original book is Out of Print
Book is available on CD (PDF)
CD list price: $30; SAVE 30%, now just $21
Our more recent edition of this book,
entitled Murach's
Beginning Java 2, JDK 5, covers Java 1.5 and has been redesigned to help you learn faster and
better than ever before. So if you're working in a Java 1.5 environment,
we recommend that you get that book instead of this one.
But if you're working with version 1.3 or 1.4 of Java 2, either developing new programs or maintaining old ones, this book is for you. Here are just some of the reasons why.
Get started right
Obvious as this sounds, most beginning Java books don't get
you started off right or fast. But this book presents what
you need to know first and builds on that knowledge in manageable
steps. So by the end of chapter 2 in this book, you'll have
installed Java on your system and you'll have coded and compiled
your first program. And by the end of chapter 6, you'll be
starting to design, code, test, and debug the kind of object-oriented
Java applications that businesses rely on.
What you'll learn in this book
If you look at the table of
contents, you'll see that this book covers all the skills
you need to develop object-oriented applications. These skills
include working with
- classes, objects, and methods
- data types
- strings
- dates
- arrays and vectors
- control statements
- inheritance and interfaces
- exceptions and debugging
- Swing components
- text files
- binary files
- databases and JDBC
- threads
What's on the CD
The CD that comes with this book contains all of the software
and source code that you'll need to begin coding, compiling,
and testing Java programs on your PC including
- the Java 2 SDK for Windows (version 1.4), which includes
the Java compiler and runtime environment
- a trial version of TextPad, a low-cost text editor that's
designed for working with Java
- the source code and test data for all of the programs
that are used as examples in the book
- all of the source code and data that you need for doing
the exercises in this book
Unique format
If you haven't used one of our books before, you may want
to download one of the
sample chapters. If you do, you'll quickly discover why
programmers are so impressed by our "paired pages" format.
Not only does this format make learning easier, but it also
makes this the ideal reference book when you're done learning.
Practical object-oriented examples
In our 30 years of experience, we've learned that it's
the coding examples that determine the effectiveness
of any programming course. Without them, you can't see
the relationships between the objects, methods, events,
classes, and Java code that a program requires. Yet
most beginning Java books present "toy" applications
that trivialize the complexities a professional developer
has to deal with. In contrast, all the examples in our
book are from real-world business applications that
follow the principles of object-oriented programming.
To see for yourself, you can download
the source code for the applications presented in
this book.
What people say about this book
"Murach's Beginning Java 2 is the best book on the
subject I have seen. I bought my first Murach book in 1987,
have bought several more over the years, and have never been
disappointed."
Patrick Smith, Sr. Software Engineer, Standard
Register Co., Dayton, Ohio
To read more comments about this book, click
here.
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money-back guarantee: If you buy this book directly from us
and aren't satisfied with it, you can return it anytime within
90 days and we'll give you a full refund. No questions asked.
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