A Guide to Programming in Java: For Java SE 5 and Java SE 6

by Beth Brown

Brown, Beth

400 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2005

About the author

Beth Brown is the author of more than 35 nonfiction books. Her newest book, Microsoft Word 2016 In 90 Pages, is a concise, relevant step-by-step guide for immediately achieving the results you want.

Her previous book, A Guide to Self-Publishing for CreateSpace On-Demand and Kindle eBook, is the definitive text for developing the entrepreneurial skill of self-publishing.

Beth Brown is also the author of Threads, a novel that follows Ellis Bell as she visits parallel timelines in an effort to find the parents she lost ten years ago. What Ellis learns along the way is not what she expected.

Beth lives in South Florida with her husband and her two children. She loves walking the beach and having her dog Taffy at her side as she writes.

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are issues with this book. The description of some ideas (e.g. certain methods and their calling) are either not given, or they are just shown in an example.

For example, after describing what is an object, she fails to mention that to call a method from the object, one must use the period: '.' .

Another example: the numberFormat method. It is not called like other methods in the example. Why not?

Thankfully, I have experience in C++.

I am learning Java from this book because it's the book being used by the lower grades at the school where I teach.