Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition (3rd Edition)

Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition (3rd Edition)
Laura Lemay,Rogers Cadenhead | 2002-12-24 00:00:00 | Pearson Education | 888 | Networking
Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, Professional Reference Edition, 3/E continues to be one of the most popular, best-selling Java tutorials on the market. Written by two expert technical writers, it has been acclaimed for its clear and personable writing, for its extensive use of examples, and for its logical and complete organization.This new edition 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.The Professional Reference Edition includes seven additional bonus chapters, a complete Java reference section, and a CD containing Sun's Java SDK.
Newly revised for some of the latest Sun JDK 1.3 standards, the second edition of Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days provides a refreshingly compact and useful tour of Java suitable for anyone who wants to master this powerful programming language quickly.

Currently, Java has some 2,000 classes and over 24,000 methods and properties. Instead of covering a laundry list of features, this book concentrates on what's really important, and keeps your attention with short, clever examples, many of which use names and examples drawn from pop culture or historical trivia.

The first week of lessons in the book comprises an easily digestible tutorial on basic Java, with review questions and exercises that will help you start using it on your own. Next comes a tour of the various options for building user interfaces in today's Java, including Swing applets and applications. In addition to basic component programming, you'll learn graphics using the new Java 2D API. (The older Abstract Windowing Toolkit, AWT, isn't covered.) Material on threading, animation, and sound helps you explore Java's multimedia capabilities.

The third and final week of lessons addresses advanced Java APIs and features that extend the reach of Java on the enterprise. After delving into more advanced class design, the book looks at topics like I/O streams in Java and Object Serialization (which allows objects to work with streams). Chapters on security and basic networking (illustrated using a server that generates trivia questions for clients) will let you work with Java on the Internet. The book closes with a chapter on database programming with JDBC. (There's also coverage of the older JDK 1.0 collection classes, which is a little surprising given the book's focus on newer Java 2 standards.)

All in all, Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days provides an efficiently packaged tutorial for learning Java, one that will be appreciated by any beginning Java programmer. The sheer number of classes and APIs in today's Java can be overwhelming. The intelligent and concise series of lessons in this book will help jump-start your knowledge. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• Overview and history of Java
• Introduction to objects
• Class inheritance
• Tutorial for basic Java (including data types and keywords, flow control, and working with objects)
• Arrays
• Basic Java applications
• Methods and constructors
• Introduction to Java applets
• Building Swing user interfaces (basic component types, layout managers, and event processing)
• Java 2D graphics (drawing basic shapes, text output, and fonts)
• Using threads for animation
• Loading and displaying images
• Java Sound (including MIDI files)
• Advanced class design (interfaces, packages, advanced method options)
• Exception handling and security
• Signing JAR files
• File and stream I/O in Java
• Object Serialization and reflection
• Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
• Java networking basics (sockets and servers)
• Building custom UI components with JavaBeans
• Database programming with JDBC
• JDK 1.0 collection classes
• References on the Sun JDK 1.3 (including installation)

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Very good book, it de-mystifies Java for beginners and professionals. The writing style is very easy to understand and it is organized extremely well. I've learned 10 languages over the past 35 years and this book was more useful than classes that were bought and paid for. This book is great for programmers professional to novice.
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This book has good examples. Should invest the time and decipline to complete the book
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This is an excellent book for anyone who is looking to get into programming for the first time or for programmers experienced in other languages looking to move to Java. I would recommend this book as the absolute first book someone interested in becoming a Java programmer needs to pick up. Enough said ;).
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Good examples, easy to follow. Excellent sense of humor. This is a must-have for any Java beginner.
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It helps to have a little programming experience under your belt. That having been said, this book provides a comprehensive, and readable introduction to Java.

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