Negative Positive
Title: An all around bad book
Review: As a computer science major, I used this book in an introductory programming course. I already had a fair bit of programming experience, although this was my first actual class. This book taught me nothing new about general programming concepts. Such topics are covered equally well or better in dozens of other computer science books (less expensive ones, I might add).However, I was new to Java, so I had hoped that this book would teach it to me. I was disappointed. The book uses its own package of classes which teach the student nothing of real Java. After using this book, I found that I had to start all over again when I wanted to learn Java, and it took me several months to unlearn the material in this book. If you want to learn programming concepts, learn real Java, and save money, then look elsewhere. I would recommend some of the Java titles published by O'Reilly or Sun.
Is the review positive or negative? 