“If you get only one Java book, it should be Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days”   –PC Magazine

In just 21 days, you can acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to develop three kinds of programs with Java: applications on your computer, servlets on a web server, and browser-launched Java Web Start applications.

No previous programming experience required. By following the 21 carefully organized lessons in this book, anyone can learn the basics of Java programming.

Learn at your own pace. You can work through each chapter sequentially to make sure you thoroughly understand all of the concepts and methodologies, or you can focus on specific lessons to learn the techniques that interest you most.

Test your knowledge. Each chapter ends with a Workshop section filled with questions, answers, and exercises for further study. There are even certification practice questions.

“Sams Teach Yourself Java is one of the best introductions to hands-on Java programming. If you buy one book on Java, this is the one to buy!”  –Independent Web Review

• Completely revised, updated, and expanded to cover the latest features of Java 6
• Learn to develop standalone Java applications, web servlets, JavaServer Pages, and Java Web Start applications
• Easy-to-understand, practical examples clearly illustrate the fundamentals of Java programming
• Discover how Swing can help you quickly develop programs with a graphical user interface
• Find out about JDBC database programming, Internet client/server programming, and XML parsing with the open source XOM class library
• Covers new features of version 6 such as Java DB, the new relational database that is now a built-in
• part of Java

Rogers Cadenhead is a web application developer who has written 22 books on Internet-related topics, including Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours. He maintains this book’s official website at http://www.java21days.com.

Laura Lemay is one of the world’s most popular authors on Web development topics. She is the author of the bestselling Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML, as well as Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days.

CD-ROM includes:

• Source code for the examples developed in the book
• Java™ SE Development Kit 6
• NetBeans™ IDE 5.5
• Bonus materials

Category:  Java Programming

Covers:  Java 6 Platform Standard Edition

User Level:  Beginning—Intermediate

$44.99 USA / $55.99 CAN / £31.99 Net UK (inc. of VAT)

 

About The Author

Rogers Cadenhead is a web application developer and author. He has written 22 books on Internet-related topics, including Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours. He’s also a web publisher whose sites receive more than 24 million visits per year. He maintains this book’s official website at http://www.java21days.com and a personal weblog at http://www.cadenhead.org.

Laura Lemay is a technical writer and author. After spending six years writing software documentation for various computer companies in Silicon Valley, she decided that writing books would be much more fun. In her spare time, she collects computers, email addresses, interesting hair colors, and nonrunning motorcycles. She is also the perpetrator of Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week and Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days and a personal weblog at http://blog.lauralemay.com.

 

Customer Reviews & Comments
Having had incredible success from The Visual Basic edition of this same title line, I was optimistic about this book. I was quite intimidated by Java but this book has not disappointed me in terms of making me interested and making it easy to learn. However, I am only now finished with chapter 2 and have found an overwhelming amount of errors in quantity and severity. There are errors in the definitions of primitive types, there is a total mess in one of the code samples... one sample has several lines of code completely reversed, while the comments inserted are the same for one section of code as they are for another section performing the exact inverse calculations! It is an utter mess. I really hope these errors are cleaned up in the next edition of the book. I've already written to the author, and I'll either want a written guarantee for a free copy of the next edition, or I'm returning the book. My fear is that as I progress, I will encounter errors that I'm not sharp enough in the language to catch, and will end up with confusion, frustration and time wasted. So, from what I can tell so far, the book's technique seems like it will be very successful in teaching me the basics of the language, but if the quantity and severity of errors persist as I've seen thus far, I'd have to say that there's got to be a better alternative. A person learning something brand new from a book should not have to be the one to discover and correct errors in the book. Who's teaching who? Comment | Permalink | (Report this)