Java All-in-One For Dummies 5th Edition

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.

This book really is written for anyone, but I believe the new Java programmer might get the most benefit from it. I was completely new to Java when I picked it up. I had absolutely no idea where to begin. I read the entire book front to back and it has really helped me to learn much more about the language. I plan to get a more advanced book next. I'm not sure how useful this would be to the seasoned Java programmer, but for someone like me who has little experience with Java, it has proven its worth. There are tons of topics covered and great examples throughout the book. I had no issues with the flow of the book either. I highly recommend this book if you are looking to start working with Java or you need good reference material.

First of all let me say that this book does a good job of explaining the concepts of Java. The author explains things in an easy to understand way. The tone is very casual and it feels like you are being taught by a friend, as opposed to say a professor. If you are someone who learns by reading, then this book is good for you.However, if you are someone who learns by doing, then this book is probably not for you. This is my only problem with the book; it doesn't have exercises or problems to complete. There are a few programs where you can kinda follow along, but I wish the author would have included assignments (with answers and help) at the end of every chapter to actually learn what we read. Without this, the book is essentially a lecture. Because of this, I realized that this book was not for me, and I returned it for something else.Everyone has different learning styles, so if you don't mind the lack of exercises, then this is a good, easy to understand book for beginners.

I am a COMPLETE NEWBIE and am only up to page 15 at the moment, so I will be back with further update.I just want to say, I don’t know whether it’s because I have dabbled with some code when building websites years ago, or just by some miracle, but there has been a couple of times already, where the author has asked, “confused yet?” And while I am not 100% sure, I kind of get it and am not panicking! This is a sure sign that anyone can follow and learn from this book. Looking forward to diving in.

It's been a long time since I stop programming in my career so I wanted to learn a new language as a hobby.This book is great, since it goes step by step from scratch to end up programming real-world cases.Apart from that, it's very nice to read, which is not something less relevant nowadays regarding a technical book.

This book is laid out in a format that is great for detailed learning or quick browsing as well as good reference material. The detail and presentation provided is easy to follow and understand. The references for details to be addressed in more depth helps with understanding of points of interest.

This is a really good reference/review book in which I would recommend having in your Tech book shelf. I really wish it had some hands on stuff but like a said, it is a reference and serves its purpose well. I've caught a few mistakes and typos in code examples which leads me to lend the book less trust. For topics which I'm not familiar, I'm not sure if any mistakes are present.