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Title: Frustrating!
Review: I've done quite a bit of procedural programming with perl, but have NO java experience and no OO programming. From the introduction it seems like I'm part of their target audience. If that's the case, they fail miserably.The first five chapters of this book were pretty clear, but I found chapter 6 confusing and frustrating. For example, on page 139 there is a class. Cool. I want to type in the class and see it work. But it doesn't work. Something about setLocationCells being passed and int, but expecting a String. Or is that a <String>? Is there a difference? I have no idea. I thought strings were declared with []. Next, they present a "Sharpen Your Pencil" exercise on page 146 - no answers. ARGH! Now I'm stuck, frustrated, overwhelmed, and lost.I found a lot of the puzzles/brain teasers at the ends of the chapters too difficult. The author's website is not at all helpful either - it would be great if they had a message board where people could post questions and help each other out.
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