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Title: Reasonably Thorough for the beginner
Review: The material in this book is reasonably good. All the source is set out, (which is a big plus since other "teaching" books don't) Lemay and Cadenhead describe go through the structure of the java langauge so you get a feel of how things go together in a java application. The complexity is low but there is a lot of stuff (876 pages, that's alot of dead trees!!) The SDK (1.2( is upto date. Other current books with SDKs usually go for 1.1.5 or something earlier. These guys have really made an effort to show you stuff. But again like any educational books out there on the market there are no exercises with solutions to help you take java out for a drive by yourself.... But they give you an extra 7 chapters (the authors call it a bonus week) most of which is a bit more advnced. Overall it is worth the buy if your serious about learning Java....
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