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Title: Very frustrating book!
Review: I don't understand all the good ratings at all. While the author should be commended for tackling some advanced items such as copy constructors and their use, the presentation is poor. As the reader goes through code samples, he/she is invariably sent to a previous chapter for part code as the author, for whatever reason, couldn't be bothered to include. One of my favorites is Display 5.20 on p. 305. the code is for an equals method with a superimposed author comment, "The complete definition of equals is given in the answer to Self-Test Exercise 37, and is a better version that the one given in chapter 4." Huh? Why bother putting samples at all. My advice is buy the Deitel book,Java How to Program (early objects) (9th Edition) (Deitel), then find some supplementary info on Copy Constructors, Clone, and overriding methods in the Object class.
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