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This is a textbook that would be better suited to a class of fourteen-year-olds, not to college level students. The graphics, activities, and the book in general, is not on a college level, and should be removed from the curriculum by all College professors.

I was diagnosed with ADD at age 50, but exhibited classic symptoms my whole life, including academic decline when I reached the age where I needed to study (I didn't know how) rather than depend on intelligence alone.

I discovered this book after about my 5th failed attempt at college. It made not only my survival but academic excellence possible. In my view, a person is never be too old to learn - and this book helps the student achieve success and the increased self esteem that accompanies it.

This book helped me go from a 1.89 gpa to a 3.7 in college. The techniques are easy to follow and really work.

The book is well written, but contains mostly examples already included in the documentation shipped with Java Studio. The reference appears to be mostly a slightly modified version of the reference included with the product. For example, the information on the Substring function of the String component doesn't contain enough information to predict its behavior. The documentation on the Math component doesn't describe the functions, or even list them.

It is the first introductory book on Java component-style programming, excellent for people who don't like the chore of coding, yet able to create rapidly impressive Java applet/application/beans.I have created one Fengshui applet in one sunday afternoon, using Java Studio.

I used this as a reference for development using Java Studio in one of my projects. I found it very informative.. it explained it very well without burying you under a ton of details. When I started as a novice Java programmer, I found this very useful. Now that I am more adept, I still refer to it again and again. I highly recommend this book.

This book generally covers many topics well, but DO NOT use this as a reference for those tricky issues or poorly documented features. Often when programming with Access, you need to lookup specific features or functions that either are not covered in the online help or not generally known. Without fail, I never seem to find these sorts of topics covered in this book. If you are a beginner and want a general overview, then this book is fine. If you are a seasoned developer and need a reference book for Access programming, I would definately consider purchasing another book.

I am a clipperhead having to learn how to use access. My concern is to learn how to use access to do data conversion, manipulation, processing w/o much of the visual user interface. This applies to processing edi flat files, structuring collected data, ect.

This isn't a visual book. Just good old procedural programming, stuff that clipper was great for.

The book does a good job of showing how to manipulate a database at the non-visual level. As I spend more time with it, I will do a follow up. For a programmer trying to figure out how to do the backend, non user interface programming of an application, it gives you a start.

Wes, Clipperhead since Summer 87

I mentor new VBA programmers and I have 4-6 VBA books in my library that I use for the code snippets. This book is the most useful by far for that task. The book has more code examples than any other book I have and the explainations are relatively complete. I have found a couple pieces of code that are incorrect or very poorly coded--but they are few and far between. The book covers a couple of things very well. DAO and ADO are covered in depth (these two chapters consume about 25% of the book) as well as providing good explainations of form and report events. This is a must have for the beginning programmer.

This book is nonremarkable and just doesn't grab you.

A better title would be "Man of Sedatives."

I found this book to be very inspiring and biblically based. Jim Cote backed up his statements with God's Word. I believe that he could change the title to Becoming a person of influence. Everything that he wrote was applicable to both genders and one of those must read books. I encourage you to check it out for yourself and watch your heart melt as you read his well chosen words.

This book is an expression of the author's knowledge of God and how to live for Him in today's world. Jim Cote is a very well read and experienced businessman and Christian teacher. His book is easy to read and understand. He explains and illsutrates well the points regarding living the Christian life. HE even explains how to become a Christian. The book is good primer for anyone trying to grow closer to God and live their faith in the real world. I read and gave away about 50 of his previous book, "On the Road Again", which dealt with the difficulties of maintaining a Christian walk in a business world that involves a lot of travel away from home. I would higly recommend anything he writes, but this bok is really special, I know you'll enjoy it!

I came to this book with an above basic level in Java 2. I have to admit I bought it because it was on special! Nevertheless, I found it a logical, well constructed book. It presented coded examples of major concepts and offered relevant detail, not attemped to overwhelm you with minutae.

Of course, everybody comes to a learning experience in different ways and what works for some doesn't work for others. However I found the combination of examples and explanations to be well suited to be learning style: read, try, modify, expand, intergrate.

Big plus: The inclusion of a chapter on Java 2 and mathematics! Finally! Authors seemd to have forgotten that computer meanes a device for computation and some of actually do need to write mathematical programs.

This book is the underlying language. It doesn't explore Swing or the AWT. Which, is fine, I think because it's better to get a book with a good, solid coverage of the fundementals then a book that glosses over everything so as to include everything (superficial). I recommend this book and progress on to Peter Van Der Linden's Just Java 2 for higher level topics. It has questions and programming exercises, with answers too so you can test yourself and check your progress.

Altogether a good book for the beginner to get a handle on the Java language without having to absorb too many other distractions like GUI's and such. Let's face it, you have to learn to walk before you can run. And better to learn to walk properly than try to run with a limp.

Also of note: As far as I can tell this book also covers (properly) virtually all the SCJP exam objectives! Not bad. There are not full blown mock SCJP exams in this book however. Because it's focus isn't the SCJP exclusively, rather a broader, more encompassing overview of beginning of the language, you might consider this book as a strong supplement to one of the certifcation books around (Sierra/Bates). A good book! And also a useful one!

I came to this book with an above basic level in Java 2. I have to admit I bought it because it was on special! Nevertheless, I found it a logical, well constructed book. It presented coded examples of major concepts and offered relevant detail. I think the pedagogy may be a little tough for the complete novice (Try head first Java), but excellent with some idea of programming. Covers all the major topics: from the beginnings of the language, up to threads (excellent chapter), inner classes (this book has a VERY good chapter on inner classes-> one of the best I've seen, better than deitel, Horton, Eckel, Van der Linden, schildt, all of whom glass over this important topic) and files and streams. Also collections! AGain, a good chapter with the intention of showing you what it means, rather than fobbing them off or sidestepping them in lieu of masses of SWING (graphics) stuff, which you can get easily enough if you get the language beneath it.

Of course, everybody comes to a learning experience in different ways and what works for some doesn't work for others. However I found the combination of examples and explanations to be well suited to be learning style: read, try, modify, expand, intergrate.

Big plus: The inclusion of a chapter on Java 2 and mathematics! Finally! Authors seemd to have forgotten that computer meanes a device for computation and some of actually do need to write mathematical programs.

This book is the underlying language. It doesn't explore Swing or the AWT. Which, is fine, I think because it's better to get a book with a good, solid coverage of the fundementals then a book that glosses over everything so as to include everything (superficial). I recommend this book and progress on to Peter Van Der Linden's Just Java 2 for higher level topics. It has questions and programming exercises, with answers too so you can test yourself and check your progress.

Altogether a good book for the beginner to get a handle on the Java language without having to absorb too many other distractions like GUI's and such. Let's face it, you have to learn to walk before you can run. And better to learn to walk properly than try to run with a limp.

Also of note: As far as I can tell this book also covers (properly) virtually all the SCJP exam objectives (except there is no mention of assertions therefore minus 1 star because it's really not Java 2 1.4 then...more java 2 1.3)! Not bad. There are not full blown mock SCJP exams in this book however. Because it's focus isn't the SCJP exclusively, rather a broader, more encompassing overview of beginning of the language, you might consider this book as a strong supplement to one of the certifcation books around (Sierra/Bates). A good book! And also a useful one!

Jeff doesn't walk away from his obligations to give you a strong grounding in the language. He doesn't seek to dazzle you with 300 pages of simplistic graphics stuff where the ooh-ahh factor is high for the novice. If you read and digest this book, you'll be able to figure out most of that anyway and do better than most- Using method local anonymous inner class for event handing on SWing objects -> at least YOU"ll understand, not merely mimick it!

This is a very underrated and undervalued book. Which is a real shame because it is significantly more comprehensive in a Java language sense than most of the 'huge' Java books: Deitel, Horton that convolute what you need to know. Try it and see if I am wrong! Because I'm not.

Java 2 By Example, Second Edition, is the gift of an unforgettable friend.

I consider myself a beginner in the Java programming field in spite of having a background in C and C++ and I think that Jeff makes an excellent exhibition of the most important topics in the Java language, each topic covers a group of very important concepts in programming that will nurture the readers with that whole necessary philosophical focus for the newbie programmers. Jeff has abundant programming experiences in programming, especially in Java 2 Standard Edition and he give many good guidelines.

One of the most powerful aspects in Java that Jeff explores is Multitreading which can be intimidante and confused for the beginners, however Jeff adds to this topic the magic of his experience to achieve an almost painless topic for those that begin.
In chapter 7 Polymorphism, Jeff begins with a brilliant explanation about the four kind of polymorphism and subsequently it covers expressly each one of these kind with clear code examples that give a deep vision in this topic.

I think that the existent repertoire of excellent, useful and varied exercises at the end of each chapter doesn't exist in other similar book. Those readers that solve all the exercises appeared in the book will be very prepared to face the more dissimilar tasks in Java.

I could be writing about the excellent qualities of each chapter but it would surpass the 1000 words allowed in this review, but without a doubt it cannot lack a comment about the expressive Glossary appeared at the end of this book. Do you want a definition of some topic? Look for it in the Glossary and Bingo!

This book will probably bring Java 2 to a whole new generation of beginning Java programmers and this book does represent a great way to get started on learning the Java language.

If I could give 6 stars, I would give them!

Thank you Jeff, we wait for Java 2 By Example, Third Edition!

I found the book to be good, though a little terse. It instructs the user well on how to create a good business plan, but only provides a single example. Generally I thought the book to be pretty good, but at only 40 pages the price is really stiff. The book's worth 14.99.

I've been looking for this book a long time. Here I found the final details to finish my BP. Very intuitive.

Normally, I recommend Examples & Explanation series over any of the other commerical outlines out there. I was very disappointed with both Constitutional Law books however. The examples are unhelpful, especially when a lot of the answers depend on material you won't learn for several chapters! Some of the text is useful but much of it is the authors biased view of what cases mean or should mean. This isn't helpful if you are not taking the class from them!

Overall, I was extremely disappointed in these two books. Not worth the money.

This book is the best study guide for Constitutional Law that I have read. It is written in narrative form, as opposed to outline form. The explanations of cases are clear and concise and reflect the nuances of the lenthy cases in this area where single-paragraph statements in outlines cannot. More importantly, the authors are well regarded constitutional law professors whose evaluations of the cases can be trusted to be accurate as well as even-handed.

Those who have given this book 4 stars or more are out of their minds. This book is a total disaster - it is simply not written well at all, and actually demonstrates a confused understanding of property law. You are far better off with a commercial outline.

This book is the best of the Property hornbooks. The Sprankling book by Lexis is also good. This one is better because it has less fluff in it. This book is so superior it is obvious to anyone who uses it.

This book has been a godsend. As with most E&Es I would heartily recommend this edition. The examples and explanations are clear and concise. At any rate, grab this E&E and run with it. It really comes in handy during crunch time, and that is when supplements show their true value. The book rates high for both personal and real property.

We used this book in my undergrad quantum class, and not a single student ever had anything good to say about this book. The entire semester was a complete haze. Griffiths writes a beatiful intro QM text.

Robinett's book is a comprehensive is somewhat mathematical treatment of the fundamental aspects of this fascinating subject.

Among the things most pleasing about the book are:
1. A constant connection with classical physics principles;
2. An early introduction to and development of the wave packet and operators and a physical interpretation of Schrodinger's equation;
3. A comprehensive discussion of various QM models in both their mathematical and physical aspects: the infinite well and other 1-D potentials, SHO, scattering;
4. Two-D and Three-D QM and the development of the Hydrogen atom;
5. Development of Gravity and QM;
6. An abundance of examples, many based on experimental results for the student to try out.

The mathematics is clear, and unlike many other books, the author takes the trouble to present many of the intermediate steps. I should say, however, that there are quite a few TYPOS sprinkled throughout the text. They are only a minor distraction and if anything, finding and fixing them can be a useful learning experience! My criticsm would be that the sections on the physical and mathematical development of Spin is too short. Indeed, the Stern-Gerlach and associated gedanken experiments which are so fundamental to an understanding of the postulates of QM do not get much of a mention.

Having said this, the book is certainly a good introduction to the subject. It complements other traditional texts like French and Taylor quite well.

This is only intro level quantum mechanics book that I have seen that really makes an attempt to get to the heart of the matter of quantum mechanics and its connections to classical physics. The notion of breaking the subject down by dimensionality of the problems is certainly unique and creative. The book covers a wide range of topics ranging from quantum gravity to chaos. Derivations are presented in a clear and readable way. Moreover, the problems are really fun and interesting. My ONLY reservation is that what *I* really like about the book, first time students would probably hate! However, for a course aimed at theoretical students in physics or in chemistry, this would be a hit.

While the text of the book is useful, none of the promised web material (source code to the examples) is available.

Nicely laid out, well thought out book BUT the web site url given promising the code for download is aliased to Amazon.

After much looping and checking phptr.com site I can only conclude the source code is not available.

Good luck with you debugging.

This is one of the few well organized texts on this broad subject.
The multi media coverage is esp interesting and DAve Ragget, a founding member of the W3 knows his stuff.