- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (16 April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 020147946X
- ISBN-13: 978-0201479461
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,822,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As an experienced programmer, you're used to having to keep on the leading edgeof software development just to survive in a competitive marketplace. That'swhy you want to learn Java, the next hot language and platform-independentdevelopment environment. And you need to learn it fast. Java Essentials for C and C++ Programmers propels you into thestratosphere of bleeding edge programmers who are already coding in Java.You'll master Java in the most efficient way possible, by building on theprogramming knowledge you already have in C and C++. You'll learn the ways inwhich Java is strikingly similar to these two languages, such as implementingbehavior for operators and control flow and in the ways it differs completely,such as garbage collection, threads, and exceptions. Most importantly you'llsee how to use this knowledge quickly and effectively to design your own Javaapplications, including Java applets for the Web.You'll discover the power and the perils of coding in Java, including: *using Java's class libraries and methods *managing memory--or not *using objects instead of unions and pointers *getting by without Goto statements *accessing C programs as external libraries *working with Java APIs *playing with multithreading. An overview of object-oriented programming brings C programmers up to speed inhow Java implements object-oriented features and shows C++ programmers how Javacleans up much of the complexity present in C++'s object concepts. Filled with code snippets to teach techniques, the streamlined approach ofJava Essentials for C and C++ Programmers speeds you through theprocess of learning this cutting-edge programming language. 020147946XB04062001
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I wrote this book based on my own experiences learning Java.
When I was first learning Java, I was fortunate to have
When I was first learning Java, I was fortunate to have
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book should have been titled "Java Essentials for C and C++ Bashing". The author starts in the introduction with "...think of this book as a superconducting supercollider [which] takes C/C++, positions it in a bubble chamber, and then hurls Java at it....".
I expected to see an insightful guide showing the similarities between C++ and Java - so as to instruct the C++ programmer's intuition to make Java obvious and natural.
I saw an author who learned C++ without making the paradigm shift to objects - in the author's own words "C++ enables you to define and create objects, but that's as far as the language and its libraries go". The author literally sees C++ as no more than C with Classes - from the introduction "The early chapters show you the paradigm shifts you'll make when programming in Java rather than in C and C++". Had the author read Stroustrup's book "The Design and Evolution of C++", this book on Java might have turned out better.
Instead of using C++ as an aid by showing the similarities to Java, the author seeks to maximize the differences. For example, instead of comparing Java object variables to the similar concept of C++ reference variables, the author compares them to C++ pointer variables. In the "Hello, World!" example, Java's main() is declared to be superior to that of C/C++. In another example, Java code that is supposedly equivalent to some C++ code is actually enhanced in order to show Java's "ease of development" for subsequently integrating a graphics interface. There is also a "my libraries are better than your libraries" game - in one example the author says "The major difference is, of course, that C++ does not define a base class called Object in the C++ libraries".
To the book's credit, it does spend some time on Java's Graphics and Web capabilities, as do most of the newer Java books. Even so, the author points out what he sees as assumed deficiencies in C and C++ (at he beginning of chapter 6 [Text-Based Applications] the author says "Chapters 7 [Graphical Applications] and 8 [Applets on the Web] are based on graphical user interfaces, so they don't have C or C++ examples that correspond directly").
I cannot say that this author is a Java evangelist since that would imply that he had a good understanding of how Java really compares to other object oriented languages. Instead, he will have to be relegated to the Java bigot heap.
Whatever else this book is, it is not "...for C and C++ Programmers" - I have to recommend a NO BUY for this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked the book out of dozens on the shelf based on its title. It *may* be a good book on Java (I don't know, since I don't know Java yet). But it certainly is not a book for C++ programmer. In the first two hours of reading it, I picked at least a dozen cases when the author didn't bother to find the C++ concept corresponding to the Java concept he introduced. The unimportant differences are exaggerated beyond reason. The subtle but important differences or similarities are apparently not known to the author.
Format:Paperback
A very good and easy to read book on Java. It is
fun to read and to follow through. One can
easily digest it in a few days and take
a great advantage of previous C/C++ experience.
It is lucid and clear and has a very good
structure. What I missed was a section on JDBC
and AWT 1.1, but for what it covers, it is more
than worth the money. One of the best introductory
Java books in the market.
fun to read and to follow through. One can
easily digest it in a few days and take
a great advantage of previous C/C++ experience.
It is lucid and clear and has a very good
structure. What I missed was a section on JDBC
and AWT 1.1, but for what it covers, it is more
than worth the money. One of the best introductory
Java books in the market.
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