Murach's Java Programming: Training & Reference

I have purchased two of these textbooks and will definitely purchase more. The beauty of these books is that they are broken into what I call 'mini lessons." I can look at a chapter and decide it has 14 mini lessons and that is manageable to me as opposed to saying I need to read 30 pages to cover the chapter.In addition, the best quality of the book is how it is laid out. Each mini lesson is two pages. The left page describes the material and the right page provides the examples. No longer do I have to hunt for the examples in the discussion.And the book as less than $100. This was a true bargain in the run away prices of textbooks in colleges these days especially in the STEM subjects.Excellent textbook for the classroom or leaning on your own.

Explains concepts simply and with examples. The code can be downloaded and you can use the code to further practice the concepts. A good book to start learning Java. Should be on every beginning Java programmers shelf.

I love this book. It was the required text for my Java class and I'm glad. It's very concise, very easy to follow. The left page will be a detailed description of the figure on the page to the right, along with a breakdown of major takeaway from that section.

My fiance was going to school for programming and is opening his own video game development studio and this book has been very helpful

Correct book for class

A one stop shop for Java programmers

Murach Book are easy to read and follow. They also include tips and tricks for the freeware software that you can use to learn the programming language.

The good:Easy to follow.Great example code.Awesome simplification of concepts.Shows new technology.Friendly for beginners.Chapter challenges are good.Code compiles without error.The bad:Multithreading chapter was a rush job.Swing GUI was over emphasized for a 2018 book.Netbeans is quickly falling behind in modern developer usage.Does not teach how to create custom generic classes.Could cover the lastest topics such as JPA, etc.I'll make it easy for you:Beginner -> This book.Otherwise -> Java 9 for Programmers (Paul Deitel)

A practical book that goes straight to the point, with a good balance between theory and practice, unlike many other books which are too academic.It is clearly aimed at people like me who want to become professional programmers in a relatively short time and learn useful skills that are used in real life.As a former .Net programmer and a non-native English speaker, I find this manual quite easy understand and I confirm it's a great source of information.Technical note: The 5th edition covers Java 1.8 and 1.9 with both NetBeans and Eclipse.Examples, exercises, solutions, and corrections can be downloaded from the publisher's website.

This is a great book for practical programmers. It has a unique style of presentation with description of an aspect on one page and example implementation/sample on the opposite page. Program applications are available for NetBeans as well as for eclipse. Number of exercise solutions I have tried and all are working with NetBeans without any bugs. I recommend this book for all courses on object-oriented. programming in Java. Appropriate resources for students and instructors are available from the publisher. It is updated for Java 1.9. However, NetBeans from Oracle, at this time, is not supporting Java JDK 1.9. You can still download JDK 1.9 and try all examples from the command line. Highly recommended for adaptation by colleges/universities.

The author, Murach, has done a great job.I bought this book 2017 but started reading just about few mouth ago.I will recommend this book if you're doing self study.

Very practical book I have ever read before

The unique training pair-pages format allows me to zoom in quickly on key information to apply. The book coverage allows a beginner to reach an intermediate coding capability effectively.