- Authors:
- Paul Deitel,
- Harvey Deitel
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Index Terms
- Java SE8 for Programmers
Reviews
Michele Mazzucco
Despite its title, most of the book is devoted to general topics, for example, object-oriented programming. Hence, I would consider it an introductory book (or, alternatively, a reference manual to the language) rather than a book about the new features introduced by Java 8. The book is composed of 24 chapters. The introductory part occupies the first three chapters, in which the authors present the typical “Hello World” program; discuss basic topics such as the arithmetic operators; introduce the setter and getter methods, which are typically found in object-oriented languages; and present the differences between primitive and reference types. The book then goes deeper into the language features, for example, by discussing the control structures (if/else, for loop, and so on) and logical operators (chapters 4 and 5), instance and static methods (chapter 6), arrays and collections (chapters 7 and 16), strings manipulation including regular expressions (chapter 14), input/output (I/O) including object serialization (chapter 15), and generics (chapter 18). The next section (chapters 8 to 11) deals with the object-oriented features of the language, such as inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, object constructors, assertions, and code modularization via packages. The biggest novelty introduced by Java 8, namely the lambda expressions enabling programmers to use a functional programming code style, is presented in chapter 17. Fortunately, several examples are discussed, such as how to perform string manipulation, and how to easily process arrays and collections (for example, how to easily compute the average value of an array without using a for loop). Next, the authors discuss how to best use Java in the context of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), for example, by means of swings (including event handlers) or JavaFX, and how to manipulate fonts and drawing objects (chapters 12, 13, 19, and 22). Chapters 20 and 21 explain how to exploit concurrency and accessing databases by means of the Java database connectivity (JDBC) interface, while the last two chapters discuss the design and implementation of an automated teller machine (ATM) system. Overall, the book is not bad; however, as I said before, it is targeted at people who are new to Java rather than at programmers who want to learn the new features introduced in Java 8. Also, the book spends too much time on easy topics; for example, the four introductory chapters are too much. The authors should have spent more time dealing with the lambda expressions. On the other hand, every chapter is full of code snippets and simple applications, making the book an ideal reference manual even for experienced programmers. More reviews about this item: Amazon Online Computing Reviews Service
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