Swing: A Beginner's Guide

by Herbert Schildt

Book Overview

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From the world's bestselling programming author

Using the practicalpedagogy that has made his other Beginner'sGuides so successful, Herb Schildt provides new Swingprogrammers with a completely integrated learningpackage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072263148
• ISBN13: 9780072263145
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A warm welcome to the Swing World

When you want to be sure you use corectly the swing technology you need some tutorial which would also take you through all the basic possibilities of this technology. After reading this book you get the confidence and experience in using of all the most important basics and that is the point. For the time being I do not know other book for beginners to acomplish such mission. Very good book.

Best basic Swing book ever

If you like Hebert Schildt's style of teaching it'll be good to know tha the book covers all the essentials of Swing. Advanced Java knowledge (Architeture and "culture") and advanced programming skills are required and previous experience with interface design is also important for understanding the whole concept. Don't buy this book unless you meet these requirements. It's a begginer's guide for the people that never worked with GUIs ***for Java*** but do understand the generic concept behind GUI development. If you meet all requirements it's worth every penny. Hebert Schildt as always, does a in-depth analysis of everything that is presented which is great for the tech-savvy people but sometimes becomes boring. Overall, it's an excellent book.

Great

Does just what the title says "A Beginner's Guide" and does it well. Easy to follow examples and covers what a beginner needs. It does not tell you how to make a gui application, but if you are using an IDE with gui generating capability like NetBeans, you really don't need that. What I needed was a book that explains the gui elements and how to use them and how to code your actions for them and this book does a great job of doing that. Excellent job.

SWING per principianti, ma non solo

Un altro interessante libro di Shildt. E' un libro ideato per chi si avvicina la prima volta alla creazione di una GUI con Swing, ma e' utile anche come riferimento (anche se non si addentra in argomenti molto avanzati). Vengono trattati tutti i componenti Swing in maniera molto chiara. C'e' molto codice d'esempio. consigliatissimo! mircha

Very Good Swing book for a Rookie!

You've got it, I am a Rookie/Greenhorn in Java. Yeah, I got my SCJP cert 5.0 two weeks ago, but I do not know a thing about Swing because it is not required for the exam. Then I looked into getting the SCJD certification. My research indicated I need to know Swing (Oh-oh), RMI, Threading ... Most Swing books out there assume you already know something about Swing, which I do not. (So when I start reading those books, I've got confused.) However, this book is different. I started reading after I passed the SCJP exam and find it very easy to follow. The way I read the book is I follow each example and code it in a text editor. (The SCJD exam allows you to use an IDE, but the code cannot be auto generated by the IDE. So it is safer to use an editor like Notepad++) The example works, and there are step by step instructions for you to follow. Also, the code is explained, alomst line by line, making learning very easy, especially for a Rookie like myself. I know I will not be an expert on Swing after I finished the book, but at least I'll probaly know enough to take to exam, and may be start reading the other more advanced Swing books.