Customer Review: I didn't appreciate this book until after I was finished with my class and had moved on to upper level programing classes at my University. I had an excellent teacher for the class and just never read the book. Now, in my new class, which we are using c++, we are working with more complicated and in... more info
Customer Review: I was required to purchase this text for my course. Having never programmed in java before and not having a strong programming background, I found this book almost impossible to follow. This book is definitely not for beginners and assumes previous knowledge of java. I did not find the explanations... more info
Customer Review: I used this book as the text for a course in applied client/server computing. This book passed the test: I would definitely use it again. The 'alternating page' format that the authors use is unique. It makes the information in the book very easy to absorb: description on the left page, code... more info
Customer Review: Some of the best technical books are short, clear, easy to understand, and practical. Greg's book falls into this description. This a great book for exploring algorithms in the python language. The book assumes the reader has at least a basic understanding of the python programming language or some... more info
Database Programming with JDBC and Java
By George Reese
Published by O'Reilly
ISBN 1565926161
Reviewed by Larry Hess-HuNTUG member This book is more of a sales pitch for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) than anything else. The first 3 chapter keep trying to sell... more info
Customer Review: This was the second unit testing book that I read after Hunt & Thomas's /Pragmatic Unit Testing/, and it did an admirable job helping me progress beyond the basics. It has especially good overviews of Test-Driven Development, the guts of JUnit, and mock objects. I found it less useful (i.e. less... more info
Customer Review: [...]I have at least half of both volumes, and it really seems to me that there are real problems here with the exposition. Let me see if I can elaborate. Here is an actual sentence from the book- We construct a symbol table that is made up of an ordered array of keys, except that we keep... more info
Customer Review: I have 2 bookcases filled with computer science and engineering texts. This is by far the worst of all of them... as far as the writing is concerned. The grammar is horrible. Obviously no spell check was used. Some books require reading sections a couple of times, just because the concepts are... more info
Customer Review: This is not a good beginning Java programming book. It is better for problem solving, but I wish all the concepts covered would have contained Java code.
