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Title: Misses the whole point
Review: As with his other books Beginning Java2 and his Learning Visual C++ his books miss the mark as a good tutorial or a reference guide. I am sure Mr. Horton is an excellent programmer, but the code examples are to spread out and incomplete. I do not want to see how he solves a problem but would rather he imparts the neccessary information for me to be able solve the problem using the language. So instead of wasting $40.00 goto the sun site and use their tutorial for free and then get the Java core books(available at Amazon). You will find this a much more rewarding experience, and save some space on your book shelfs because this is where this book will end up collecting dust.
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