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Title: Not worth the time or money
Review: As with most people, I usually dig O'Reilly books, but I made a big mistake here. Unlike other "Leaning" books, Learning PERL for example, this learning book did more to put me to sleep rather than teach me anything about Java. There were really only examples in the first chapter, then it lost it's track and felt more like someone's thesis on the subject than a real commercial book.This book was very successful at turning me away from Java and O'Reilly for a while, until I found "Head First Java". If your looking to learn about Java, look at Head First, it's much better, fun and you actually learn something about java, good programming, OO and all the great subjects that come along with those.
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