(Note Our review is based on the Java 1.2 version of the book)
After our experience with The complete idiots guide to creating a webpage (see HTML reviews ). We were looking forward to this one. Sadly we were pretty disappointed.
Firstly to use it you need to down load the massive Java Developer's Kit (JDK) from Sun. Although this is free it tied up our PC's 56K modem for well over an hour. Sun allow others to distribute this so why couldn't they have given us a CD like their HTML book
We didn't find the writing style helpful writing and at times it could be long between examples
However the book is well laid out and may appeal to some
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