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Title: Great for the beginner!
Review: Excellent learning tool! After checking out as many Java books as the library systems in our surrounding three counties had to offer, I believe that this one was the most readable and understandable for a beginner like myself. I found that the chapters stayed focused on their topics while building on each other in a straight forward manner. Technical jargon was used only after it had previously been introduced. There weren't the continual comparisons and references to predecessor languages that other authors seem to regard as useful, even though, most beginners in java today probably have no background in those languages.
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