Java Phrasebook

By Timothy Fisher

Essential Code and Commands Java Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects in Java. Concise and Accessible Easy to carry and easy to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672329077
• ISBN13: 9780672329074
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and well written book

Java Phrasebook is a beautiful, well written book containing 100's of phrases which will help the reader to accomplish common tasks in Java. This book is for intermediate Java developers as well as developers who are new to Java. The author assumes you have previous knowledge of Java and you are ready to program in Java; don't worry he has included references to various web sites (mostly Sun) throughout the book for additional information you might need. The book covers JDK 5.0 and is not a Java language tutorial or introduction or even a reference to the Java language. Personally, I found this book very easy to read, and carry; it fits in my purse. I do agree with what the author suggests; if your goal is to get a deeper understanding of a specific technology, this is not the book you are looking for. On the other hand, this book should be very helpful for those who need to brush up some phrases before an Interview or even to those who teach Java courses. I had seen foreign language phrase books earlier, this was the first technical phrasebook I read, and if you are indeed looking for one, I highly recommend this for Java.

A different kind of Java reference book

This is a very odd approach for a Java reference book. The idea is that, if you are in a foreign country and cannot speak the language, "phrasebooks" for that language, showing you how to say common phrases without having to study the language in detail, are very helpful. That is true. However, those people who find such phrasebooks useful tend to board a plane and go home in a few weeks, with no real further use for the language. The problem is, how many times is that true in programming? Either you need to know the entire programming language, or you don't. This book is an attempt to use the same phrasebook approach for Java. In the beginning, it does a pretty good job of stating basic things you need to know such as setting up your environment, compiling from the command line, etc. that are usually not clearly stated in books that teach you the full-blown language. However, don't expect it to teach you the language. It might make a good reference for showing novices certain basics and maybe even experienced programmers might find it useful for a few useful "recipes" and tricks, but I found The Java Cookbook much more helpful and comprehensive in its coverage. The book's biggest weakness is it skips over the specific issue of object-orientation in Java. The following is the table of contents: Chapter 1. The Basics Compiling a Java Program; Running a Java Program; Setting the Classpath; Chapter 2. Interacting with the Environment Getting Environment Variables; Setting and Getting System Properties; Parsing Command-Line Arguments; Chapter 3. Manipulating Strings Comparing Strings; Searching For and Retrieving Substrings;Processing a String One Character at a Time; Reversing a String by Character;Reversing a String by Word; Making a String All Uppercase or All Lowercase; Trimming Spaces from the Beginning or End of a String; Parsing a Comma-Separated String; Chapter 4. Working with Data Structures Resizing an Array ;Iterating Over a Collection; Creating a Mapped Collection; Sorting a Collection; Finding an Object in a Collection; Converting a Collection to an Array; Chapter 5. Dates and Times Finding Today's Date; Converting Between Date and Calendar Objects; Printing Date/Time in a Given Format; Parsing Strings into Dates; Adding to or Subtracting from a Date or Calendar; Calculating the Difference Between Two Dates; Comparing Dates; Finding the Day of Week/Month/Year or Week Number; Calculating Elapsed Time; Chapter 6. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions Regular Expressions in Java; Finding Matching Text Using a Regular Expression; Replacing Matched Text; Finding All Occurrences of a Pattern; Printing Lines Containing a Pattern; Matching Newlines in Text; Chapter 7. Numbers Checking Whether a String Is a Valid Number; Comparing Floating Point Numbers; Rounding Floating Point Numbers; Formatting Numbers; Formatting Currencies; Converting an Integer to Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal; Generating Random Numbers; Calculat