Java All–in–One For Dummies

Really good book for beginners

Aunque empieza con lo básico, es muy completo y detallado. Bien explicado y con bastantes ejemplos. Abarca muchos temas más allá de las instrucciones de programación java (Spring, Java FX, etc.).Estaría mejor traducido, pero es lo que hay.

I really hate the dummies series because of the name but its pretty good fi youre a beginner.

Brought this book to help me understand and program in Java. As a beginner I required some help to start programming in Java so I started to watch tutorials on you tube. However, I brought this book as I feel its just easier to open up a page in the book to read particular parts in detail over and over rather than re watching a video on you tube which with having slow internet speeds is a pain. This book is good at explaining topic's, keywords, etc, using a number of diagrams which help a lot! I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to start programming in Java.

I spent months studying the Java Tutorials trying to learn the language. I was able to understand part of the things taught there but found the tutorial to be very poorly written. It was not written with the beginner in mind, maybe an intermediate coder at best. I would be moving right along and out of nowhere the tutorial would introduce things I had no idea what they were. No lead up to the new topics, it would just show up. It was usually written in a very terse (minimalistic) way. I knew I had to find something better or I was not going to be able to learn the language in a reasonable amount of time.After reading the free chapters for every Java book Amazon offered I settled upon purchasing this one. I was looking for a book with easy to understand Java coding examples and I was not disappointed. The book is loaded with them. The author introduces you to a subject with small examples of code and explains in plain English what everything means. He continues to build upon the same examples when introducing more material. This is really important when learning.The book has excellent flow. You start out with the basics and steadily progress into serious Java techniques by the time your finished. Theres no jumping around or being blind sided by new topics. You use what you learned previously. The books/subjects chosen by the author for teaching Java are simply put, brilliant. They are exactly what you need to know if you want to ever be a serious Java coder. You will gain a well rounded knowledge of Java.There are no tests or questions and exercises but that is not needed here. I personally would study a chapter and then try to code the examples in the book without looking at them. Because the author explains his code examples so detailed you can use it as pseudo code for doing this. It works extremely well. So much so that you will begin to think exactly as the author teaches. Towards the end I became so accustomed to the authors style that when comparing my code to his, my code would be nearly identical in every aspect, maybe a variable would be named slightly different but nothing else.The book does have one flaw but not one that will hurt your learning. It does have a significant amount of minor spelling errors and a few coding errors. I have noted each one and am sending them to the Dummies people for their review. I was rather surprised by the amount of them. They should have been easily caught by a proofreader so it makes me think that no one at the Dummies organization put forth the effort.There is plenty of extra material to be learned from the dummies website on this book. The bonus chapters are as well written as the rest of the book so it adds a considerable amount of material to an already generous book of 833 pages. I cant speak highly enough for the author and what he has done for me, I am very grateful for his efforts. It has helped me immensely.