Re: Java: An Old Friend Comes Back
- From: Jeff Berwick <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:11:32 -0400
Do you need to have a special membership to get that book or is it free?
Thx,
Jeff
On 2010-08-26, at 2:54 PM, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi,
> It doesn't take much to make me happy. When I was learning Cobol, my Cobol
> books were written by Deitel. I loved those books because they were full of
> words, and they explained things fully as they presented the code. On Safari,
> I ran into, and started reading, Java™ for Programmers: Deitel® Developer
> Series. It is giving me a comforting feeling that with my friend Harvey
> beside me, even though he might not be the actual author, because it has been
> almost 23 years now, that I may learn this OO stuff yet. And as I'm listening
> to it, the comforting memory of the voice of the guy from Recording For The
> Blind and Dyslexic who read at least one of the structured programming Cobol
> books is sounding in my memory. And I like this book also because it has
> questions at the ends of chapters, and it doesn't plough through the material
> and take too many side roots. And each example is a little, complete, program
> that you can lift out of the book and play with. Oh, and they also have one,
> optional project that they develop as they introduce the concepts throughout
> the book. I'm going to go and read Chapter 3 now, which tells how to make and
> use classes for the first time.
>
> I'll probably have dumb questions after that.
>
> I'm so happy for now.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Jim
>
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