Title: A big disappointment
Product review: I was so excited to see this title as I am struggling with some interesting image processing problems in Java but I'm afraid it will be the first book I return. It says "Java 2.0 compatible" in red on the cover, and stricly speaking it is (as is all Java 1 code), but it doesn't use any of Swing or Graphics2d. Code developed with this as a base will have to be ported (as the book itself admits around page 377).The OO design is also poor - most everything extends Frames (the final class developed is at the end of a chain of 9(!) classes linearly extending Frame) rather than Panel or Canvas so a lot has to be rewritten to be reused in more general programs.There are also some Java errors in the book in the 2-d array area. Finally, the book is rather ugly inside - bad fonts, bad alignment etc. Prentice Hall should issue a recall. I'm trying to extract some gems of image processing wisdom but the connection to Java is rather tenuous and should be skipped over.
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