Title: Not a book for beginners
Review: This book is awful. The examples are complex and confuse the issue rather than enlighten. The text does not illustrate the topics but in many cases simply lists them. There are many examples where in attempting to define a term , they use the term to define it. The book includes a trail map, but often it is a trial to follow it. The authors waste many lines of text simply predicting what the next paragraph will do. I do not recommend this book. A far better idea is too buy Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in Java" or Peter Van Der Linden's 'Just Java 1.2'
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