Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ

click here for more details, find new or used items	David J. Barnes, Michael Kolling Our price £39.89 (£42.99) New from £36.19 Used from £38.00 Pages: 520 (Paperback) ISBN: 013197629X Pub: Prentice Hall Pub date: 2006-04-27 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 37511

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Not for the self taught (1/1 people found this helpful)

this is an excelent book, but definately NOT FOR THOSE TEACHING THEMSELVES.

The problem is that it is used in college courses, so there are no answers to the exercises. This means that if you are at home trying to learn Object Oriented Programming, and you have no tutor to ask, you don't know if you've got it right. And if you come across an exercise (as I have with 4.26) where you can see an answer but don't know how to code it, you're stuffed.

So, yes buy this book if you're part of an organised (college) course, but steer clear if you're on your own trying to teach yourself.

Best book for OOP (2/2 people found this helpful)

This is probably THE best book there is for Object Orientated Programming (OOP).
The book explains in full detail with examples, how to execute objects, methods and classes.
This book turned me from a failed OOP student to THE best OOP programmer out of all the students out of the whole year. Considering university lectures do not fully teach you everything there is you need to know about OOP, this book will help fill in the gaps.

Excellent (1/2 people found this helpful)

If you are interested in OOP or a taster for Java this is the book. It has a university like learning approach which makes the whole learning experience both realitively easy and also interesting. Worth the money and the best book I have seen to date.

Another satisfied customer - an Excellent Book (7/7 people found this helpful)

The idea behind this book is that although it uses Java as a way to teach object oriented programming, it's not focussed on the "Java" aspect, but the "OOOP". This means it provides a clear understanding of the underlying OOP principles, then uses Java programming to give examples - and there's many, many examples.

I particularly liked the fact the book provides a project - giving the reader something to do, then at the end gives a few other tasks. That way if you're really dedicated (or merely curious) you can take it a bit further.

As with the other reviewers I found it easy to follow (without being patronising or simplistic), and whereas I found many other books great on theory or syntax, this was pure practical stuff.

The fact that it also comes with a very simple Development Tool hides much of the initial nonsense you'd have to get to grips with Java - and again visually demonstrates what other books merely tell you about.

If you're leaning Java for the first time - read this first.

The best place to start (4/4 people found this helpful)

This book is an introduction to the concept of Object Oriented programming using the Java language. It is not a complete course in Java and by avoiding getting too involved in the specifics of the Java language, allows the skills you will learn to be applied to writing code in any object oriented language.

The book is fantastically laid out with full colour-coded syntax for all code examples making it much easier to read than most programming books.

This is a tutorial rather than a reference book.

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