Finding an accompanying java book to Objects first with java

[SIDSARAN]

Hi everyone,

I am a second year computer science and engineering student in India.I
have just started to learn java programming language.I have purchased
the book "Objects First With Java - A Practical Introduction Using
BlueJ " by David J Barnes and Michael Kölling as the introductory text
as I found its approach to be most suitable.
I knew that there were huge areas which are simply not discussed in
this book , including reflection, JDBC, JSP etc.But still I purchased
it because what you lose in breadth you gain in depth of understanding
of object oriented principles.
So I want to purchase another book to be used as a supplementary
feature to cover the topics left aside in the objects first java
book.The books available in the local bookstore here are-
"Head First Java",
"Thinking In Java"(Bruce Eckel),
" Learning Java"(Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen),
"core java 2"(cornell and horstmann)
and "The complete reference " (Herb Scheidt)

All I want to know that which would be the best book out of the above.
The "Just Java" book is not available here and I also want to know
whether Head First Java book contains some text about java applets and
java beans or not,as they are needed in my course study.

Regards,
SS.

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Hi everyone,

Please cross-post, rather than multi-post.

(X-post to c.l.j.p./h., w/ f-u to c.l.j.h. only)

Andrew T.

 

[Hal Rosser]

All I want to know that which would be the best book out of the above.
The "Just Java" book is not available here and I also want to know
whether Head First Java book contains some text about java applets and
java beans or not,as they are needed in my course study.




There is no "best book".
But here are some 'good' books for learning java

http://www.murach.com/books/java.htm

 

[printdude1968]

All I want to know that which would be the best book out of the above.
The "Just Java" book is not available here and I also want to know
whether Head First Java book contains some text about java applets and
java beans or not,as they are needed in my course study.




There is no "best book".
But here are some 'good' books for learning java

http://www.murach.com/books/java.htm

Can I answer this one?

I am a big fan of the Head First series of book but according to the
TOC (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfjava2/toc.pdf) I believe the
answer to your question is "sort of". They do touch on EJB a bit but
probably not to the extent that you need. I think Eckel's book goes
into applets, but to get into beans you may need to get a book on J2EE
(like Java EE 5 from epress)

 

[printdude1968]

All I want to know that which would be the best book out of the above.
The "Just Java" book is not available here and I also want to know
whether Head First Java book contains some text about java applets and
java beans or not,as they are needed in my course study.




There is no "best book".
But here are some 'good' books for learning java

http://www.murach.com/books/java.htm

Here is the TOC from HFJ

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hfjava2/toc.pdf

I haven't gotten up to the EJB section yet but they do touch on it a
bit. You might want to look at Java EE5 by Apress
http://www.apress.com/ApressCorporate/supplement/1/420/1590594703-3072.pdf

 

[Randolf Richardson]

Hi everyone,

I am a second year computer science and engineering student in India.I
have just started to learn java programming language.I have purchased

Congratulations! Java is a fantastic programming language, especially to
get started with Object Oriented Programming. I hope you find it
enjoyable as well.

[sNip]

All I want to know that which would be the best book out of the above.
The "Just Java" book is not available here and I also want to know
whether Head First Java book contains some text about java applets and
java beans or not,as they are needed in my course study.

Over the years you will likely wind up with a collection of many books.
I have at least two dozen each on Assembler, Perl, and Java, plus a few
other miscellaneous books about HTML, Databases (mostly Oracle and
PostgreSQL), video game development, etc. I can't think of one particular
book that was really useful to me (aside from the complete reference for
Perl), rather I found that each book generally had a lot more to offer in
certain areas.

Before you buy a book, however, I recommend you get familiar with Roedy
Green's web site which has a lot of very useful information about Java,
along with detailed explanations and well-documented example code:

Roedy Green's Java and Internet Glossary
http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html

Roedy's web site has been quite useful to me on countless occasions, and
I hope it will be a nice starting point for you too. Good luck!

 

[SIDSARAN]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your suggestions.

Regards,

SS

 

[kmastanreddy]

hi SIDSA

i want to know u want oops concepts or corejava or jsp & servlets &
java beans & jdbc e.t.c in one book

First we want the oops concepts clearly i prefer java Complete
reference

we want the servlets and jsp remaining things i prefer the Head First

ok first say to me clearly

 

[SIDSARAN]

hi SIDSA

i want to know u want oops concepts or corejava or jsp & servlets &
java beans & jdbc e.t.c in one book

First we want the oops concepts clearly i prefer java Complete
reference

we want the servlets and jsp remaining things i prefer the Head First

ok first say to me clearly

Hello,
Sir my course structure is like this-

Unit - III

Functional Modeling: Data flow diagram, specifying operations,
constraints, a sample functional model.OMT (object modeling techniques)
methodologies, examples and case studies to demonstrate methodologies,
comparisons of methodologies, SA/SD, JSD.

Unit - IV

Java Programming: Introduction, Operator, Data types, Variables,
Methods & Classes, Multithread Programming, I/O, Java Applet.
Java Library: String Handling, Input/Output exploring Java.io,
Networking, Applets classes, Event Handling, Introduction to AWT,
Working with window, Graphics, AWT Controls, Layout Manager and Menus,
Images, Additional packages.

Unit - V
Software Development using Java:
Java Beans, Java Swing, Java Servlets, Migrating from C++ to java,
Application of java, Dynamic Billboard Applet, Image Menu: An image
based menu, Lavatron Applets, Scrabblets, JDBC, Brief functioning of
upper layer E-mail and their applications.


I hope now I have made myself clear.

Regards,
SS