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Beginning Java
Audience: Beginner Rating: 4 Ivor Horton
WROX Press, June 1997
ISBN 1861000278; 1038 pages; $39.95 US
Covers Java 1.1, and is chock-full of useful information. Good, basic, from-the-ground-up detail that the beginning programmer will appreciate. Experienced programmers can skip the introductory chapters and detailed explanations. Could be used as a textbook in a class as it contains exercises at the end of each chapter.

This book has a good section on layout managers, with lots of examples and figures. It covers JDBC and RMI. Halfway through, it covers the AWT, so the example programs do not use GUI until then. It covers only the 1.1 event model (not 1.0.2); some books describe both.

I've found this book to be very complete. One of my colleagues also borrowed it for a long time and gave it very positive reviews.

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