Title: You'd be better off with Google
Product review: I have read a lot of technical books in my day, and I am flat out tired of the poorly organized books authored by proficient techies who can not organize topics or write. Core Java falls into this category. The book is bloated and disproporionate.Why is 2/7 of the book spent on GUI-related concepts at the expense of fundamentals? Why is reflection covered along with inheritance? Why do examples contain anonymous inner classes (which the author admits are bad)? Why do the examples consistently use concepts that are covered chapters later? The answer is because the book is poorly written and organized.Save your money and use the Internet to learn Java. It's free, and it's better.I get the feeling that those who favorably review this book are defending Java more than the book. This is not a debate over the technology. It is simply a review of a book intended to teach technology. The book is bad. Java might be, too, but that is another topic altogether.
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