Title: Accessible and useful
Product review: This is a pretty accessible book. It's the first book I ever looked at on Java, and I didn't find it at all difficult to understand the presentation of ideas. About the first half of it is very useful, as well. The second half gets into a graphics library and a numerical functions library, both of which were written for this book. If you have need of such things, you'll find the second half of the book as useful as the first; if not, you'll probably want to move on next to the 4th edition of "Java In A Nutshell," by David Flanagan.
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