Product Description

If you're ready to start using Java 2 instead of simply watching on the sidelines as way-cool Web applets dance across your browser window, grab yourself a copy of the third edition of the popular Java Programming For Dummies and get set to rock your world.

Find out how to add oomph and interactivity to your Web sites with nifty Java applets, provide a friendly user interface to your corporate database, or develop games as you plumb the pages of Java Programming For Dummies, 3rd Edition:

Master the latest Internet standards in Java 2 Write Java 2 code that you can use again and again in different applications Produce dynamic Web pages that respond to user input Create sprites, bots, and other applets that can run on all kinds of computers -- PCs, Macs, and UNIX workstations Transfer mini programs without losing or corrupting data Develop multiuser games that you can play across the Internet

This fun and friendly reference book also features a CD-ROM that includes all the sample code and applets from the book, along with Sun Microsystems' Java Developer Kit (JDK) and a trial version of the JBuilder 2 development tool from Inprise.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1196038 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
Donald Koosis has developed materials to help people understand computers for more than 20 years. He has worked for IBM, Bell Labs, Xerox, and now owns his own company, Instructional Systems Co., Inc. He is the author of best-selling, self-instructional books on statistics and electricity/electronics. He can be reached at donald@isc.com.;

David Koosis is a native citizen of cyberspace. He writes programs to help computers understand people, working in Java, Delphi, C++, and other unspeakable tongues. David has developed software for a variety of Fortune 500 companies and Wall Street firms. He co-developed the 1994 edition of PC Magazine's computer benchmarks and has contributed to several successful commercial software programs. He is head of software development for ISC Consultants, Inc., and can be reached at dkoosis@isc.com.

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Customer Reviews

Avoid this book at all costs.
The title of the book says it all. I was a dummy to buy this book. If you want to learn Java, this book is not for you. I good ground-level book is "Teach Yourself Java" by Joseph O'Neil. A good 2nd book is "Just Java" by Peter van der Linden.

admittedly quite bad...
I had high hopes for this book, after flicking through a lot of the Java books in the bookstore, this one really appealed to me because of the large text and nice diagrams. And while the book was pleasently easy to understand (most of the time), it just doesn't flow very well. I found that around page 130-140 I was finding out the stuff I was wanting to know within the first few pages. They also throw in a chapter on HTML in the most inappropriate place. This book seems VERY rushed, and this is obvious from the large number of errors. I was stuck on my code for a number of hours, before I got help from someone on IRC... they were like "uhh WHY does Switch always have a capital S?" and I replied "because this stupid book told me to *sigh*. Even the bonus pull-out "cheat sheet" that summarizes the whole book has at least one missing semi-colon. Trust me, get something a bit more... concise.

Excellent book for ambitious dummies
Java Programming for Dummies is probably one of the most ambitious books in the Dummies series. The book gives an excellent introduction to Java programming, mainly covering web applet programming.

The writing style of the authors, Donald J. Koosis and David Koosis, perhaps isn't as funny as those of other Dummies-writers, but what they lack in the joke department is weighed up by nice and easy-to-read explanations of difficult subjects. They have concentrated most of the text on how to program web applets, a wise choice considering this is an introductury text on Java programming.

Even though this is a book for the absolute beginner in Java programming, the subjects are so well and thoroughly explained that the book can be used as a reference later on! My only complaint is that the book's covers should specify that the reader should have at least some programming experience. I soon understood that without my sparse knowledge of Visual Basic, I wouldn't have understood the programming concepts as fast as I did. Perhaps this shows that Java programming isn't suitble for Dummies right away. But this book makes Java programming understandable for us dummies too!