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This is a well crafted book that not only teaches you everything you need to get going with JBuilder, but reinforces excellent object oriented programming techniques and programming standards as well. I can't say enough about how well written I think this book is and how helpful it has been to me. I have read more than 50 computer programming books and I think this is the best written one of them all. Sometimes I need a spark to get me going on a new technology and this book has re-energized my desire to learn.
I only hope that Charlie and Margie decide to write a similar book on C#Builder.
Niels Damgaard - IT Manager, Delco Automation Inc.
The book is mostly well written and under normal circumtances it would rate highly. But Java and JBuilder are moving so fast that a book published in 2003 is already "out of date" by June in the same year!
The authors use examples from JBuilder 7 and I'm using JBuilder 8. There are so many differences between the versions that some confusions are enough to make the learning process more difficult than necessary.
My dissatisfaction is not about the authors' efforts than about the nature of the industry where the ethos is about making everyone run "on the spot", making "improvements" to software which are not really esssential and forcing everyone to upgrade and learn new things which are not really necessary.
The whole approach is inefficient and counter-productive. It should not be tolerated by any clear thinking programmer. I am tempted to recommend everyone to abandon this "circus".
