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"Java Sourcebook", Ed Anuff, 1996, 0-471-14859-8, U$29.95/C$39.95
%A   Ed Anuff
%C   5353 Dundas Street West, 4th Floor, Etobicoke, ON   M9B 6H8
%D   1996
%G   0-471-14859-8
%I   Wiley
%O   U$29.95/C$39.95 416-236-4433 fax: 416-236-4448
%P   498
%T   "Java Sourcebook"
 
There is little to recommend this addition to the flood of Java books.  Those
familiar with programming, particularly in C++, will be able to learn from this
book as well as from any of the others.  For the others, however, Anuff doesn't
seem to feel any particular tutorial responsibility.
 
One comment is quite illustrative.  After a snippet of source code (almost
pseudocode) that doesn't have much bearing on the topic under discussion, there
are a couple of sentences that explain nothing not glaringly obvious to the
rankest BASIC programmer.  Anuff then gives up, and suggests that if you are
still puzzled you review the earlier material.  He doesn't even state which
earlier material.  Probably wise, since I doubt that any amount of rereading
would clarify the situation.
 
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996   BKJAVASR.RVW   960727

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