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Title: Soft-core java for weekend programmers
Review: Don't believe the cover. This book is not useful for professional programmers. I hadn't really used Java since JDK 1.02, and thought this book could get me up to speed. Now it just collects dust and occassionally gets further defaced when I'm feeling spiteful.It probably would be good for somebody learning Java from Visual Basic -- it includes lots of VB-specific notes. But if you already know anything about Java or OO you will find this book very slow and hard to use. It makes a terrible reference as its description of both the language and the libraries are far from complete, hoping that you can infer the general ideas from their simple over-explained examples. Serious programmers will be bored or even insulted by the windy, condescending prose.Keep looking. There's got to be better out there. I wish I had.
