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| Head First Java (Head First) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: £31.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 3687
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 720
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8 x 1.8
ISBN: 0596009208
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596009205
ASIN: 0596009208
Publication Date: February 9, 2005
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 Fantastic...!! November 3, 2007
Hi everyone,
First of all i feel proud to be an java engineer, by Head First.... I've never crossed an wonderful book like this.. there is nothing to ignore in this book.. each and every word is informative. no one could beat this book by the explanation. i suggest this book for the pupils who is having dream of java engineer.. thanks to Kathy & Bates.. eagerly waiting for their next books..
Cool October 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been trying to learn Java for 7 years and had always stopped after going a little distance, an important reason being its so boring to read through a "normal" tech book. But this book's theme of entertaining way of teaching has kept my interest and I think this time I've learned it in full.
Quack. October 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely brilliant book. Covers a large amount of what is required for SCJP certification but in leisurely "brain friendly" format. If you are familiar with a block structured language & OO concepts then dive straight in. For a total beginner then you might need something to complement this book in order to get the ideas around inheritance, instantiation, encapsulation etc..
Covers, RMI, Swing, threads, Collections/generics and many other topics with working examples. Full of many gags if you like that sort of thing. Probably over priced but look out for a second hand one if you can.
Very good for beginners November 15, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I truly recommend this one for everyone who is starting in JAVA out there. It's very clear and amusing on explaining things that are normally boring...
I only think it could include more examples. Specially sockets and RMI since it's the topics i was looking for and i found it a little poor on these subjects. But either way i recommend for every starting java student to have it on the shelf!
This book is not for people who want web development like applets and servlets though - for that you have the HF servlets and jsp.
 Tries to hard October 10, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I found this book hard to get on with. I felt that it had to much going on on each page and was messy. I understand that Sierra is tying to teach java to many different learning styles (pragmatic, activist, theorist and reflectist)but that is a hard task. It is done quite well and has some very interesting points. Though I did not like the abstract coding, I like coding to actually relate to real life and not about when a dog does or doesn't bark. Though it is original to have coding all about animals.
Maybe I am to much of a theorist to like this book, but I did like most of the exercises. It was all just to messy for me.
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