With what book did you first learn java? How good was the book?

I was just curious what else was out there, although I'd like to think I've at least moved past the beginning stages.
I started out with Douglas Bell and Mike Par's "Java for Students" required for my first class. It was a good beginning book I think, and relatively easy to use. Now I'm going to college at Michigan Technological University, and "using" Dave Poplawski's "Objects have class" (he's actually one of the faculty here) Maybe it's because I already did Java, but I just can't stand the book. It starts you out using some crappy Animator instead of extending applets. (I'm sure I could write a better program for this purpose)
But hey, just chime in if you have an opinion, b/c I'm wondering what other people thought of the books you're "forced" to buy, or what's better outside of school.

A basic Java Library
Core Java - Cornell & Horstmann
Sun Publishing 1996
This was my first introduction to Java, not a great book, but good in its day, Sun has probably updated it.
Exploring Java - Niemeyer & Peck
O'Reilly 1997
This is an excellent book for Java 1.1, now out of print, but I still use it as a reference for basic stuff. I'd recommend O'Reilly's "Heads up Java - Your Brain on Java" as a good modern substitute. I've taken a good look at this, its light, humorous and quite complete. Probably the best introduction at present.
The Java Programming Language, Third Edition - Arnold, Gosling, & Holmes
Sun, Addison Wesley 2000
This is a must for reference
Applied Java Patterns - Stelting & Massen
Sun, Prentice Hall 2002
Good for design issues, includes examples in Java of the GOF patterns
Java Swing - Eckstein, Loy & Wood
O'Reilly 1998
If you do GUI stuff you really need this, there is a more recent 1.3 edition
The Art of Computer Programming - Donald Knuth
Addison Wesley 1969
Not about Java, but it covers all the stuff that hasn't changed in 50 years. And all that's really changed is that computers get smaller, cheaper and faster, and the books get bigger, more expensive and slower.
Java in a Nutshell Third Edition - Flanagan
O'Reilly 1999
The ultimate reference. This nut keeps getting bigger while the type gets smaller, the examples got pulled out into a separate book in the third edition, the forth is a coconut. You probably want the newest edition regardless of the size and price.
Java Network Programming - Harold
O'Reilly 2000
Covers the basics of network programming in 1.3, doesn't cover NIO yet.
There are lots of books on more esoteric topics, like J2EE patterns, JNI, JDBC, Java Beans, EJB, JSP, Servlets, J2ME and NIO. Only buy these if you need them. The API documentation is often all you need.

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I'm wondering if anyone here has created and had printed one of these books. THe reason I ask is, i am a photographer and I am thinking about offering photobooks as something my clients can buy, but i dont want to use the iPhoto version if they arent good quality. Please only answer if you have printed a book, I dont want answers like "i'm sure they are great or apple wouldnt offer them"

I have made many books, several recentlly. I thought the quality was outstanding. However, it depends on what you are wanting. Quite a few of my books were made with scanned in snapshots. I was pleased with the results even though the photos were of inferior quality from my end. They still looked fine in the books. I even went ahead with the book when I got the yellow warning triangle that the photo's resolution would not be good enough. I also used nonstandard sized photos that I had cropped, and they looked just as I wanted.
The point is that only you can decide if the quality suits your purpose. My purpose was to create a book of memories of certain events as gifts for the people involved. I did one for my father-in-law's birthday, my parents' anniversary, etc. I even did one for our daughter and son-in-law that was a page-by-page comparison of our wedding and reception and theirs...that is, the left-hand sides of the book pages were photos from our wedding and the right-hand sides were comparable photos from their wedding. Obviously, their photos, which were mostly digital, were better than ours, but the book was a fun book for them.
As a professional, you may be dissatisfied with quality if you are a perfectionist, but as an amateur photographer, I am pleased to create these and give them as gifts.
One suggestion: always create a large book. Apparently the medium and small books are lesser quality. I can't speak from my experience since I always have ordered the large books, but I know that others have reported the smaller ones were not so nice as the large ones.
I recommend that you make one book as a test and see if you like the results. A 20 page book is around $35, I think, and worth it to find out. I did use another service and sent approximately the same photos as I did for the Apple version, and there were some differences, but generally the quality was about the same.
One other thought: there are several sites in the US that print the books, and they may vary. I am in California and all my books have been great....no problems with colors running/bleeding or any aberrations in the bindings/ front photos/ etc.

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I have been working on a book and have 418 photos already in my book. All of a sudden I cannot access the book format to see the multiple view, spread view, or single view. I can no longer see my book although I still see the collection with 418 photos

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DO NOT Get The Service With This Company IF You Want to Receive a Good Customer Service

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Mahsa21,
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From Holmans post on this:
e MOM Server could not execute WMI Query "Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem" on
computer “servername.domain.com”
Operation: Agent Install
Install account: DOMAIN\account
Error Code: 800706BA
Error Description: The RPC server is unavailable.
The MOM Server could not execute WMI Query "(null)” on
computer “servername.domain.com”
Operation: Agent Install
Install account: DOMAIN\account
Error Code: 800706BA
Error Description: The RPC server is unavailable.
8004100A
800706BA
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2. Firewall is blocking NetBIOS access. If Windows 2008 firewall is enabled, ensure “Remote Administration (RPC)” rule is enabled/allowed. We need port 135 (RPC) and the DCOM port range opened for console push through a firewall.
3. Inspect WMI service, health, and rebuild repository if necessary
4. Firewall is blocking ICMP (Live OneCare)
5. DNS incorrect
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/console-based-agent-deployment-troubleshooting-table.aspx
Regards, Blake Email: mengotto<at>hotmail.com Blog: http://discussitnow.wordpress.com/ If my response was helpful, please mark it as so, if it answered your question, then please also mark it accordingly. Thank you.

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I bought creative suite production 6 2 years ago. On 12/24 I guess an update came thru and screwed my program all up. Its trying to make we buy to go into the cloud. I'm happy with what I have, I don't went to go into the cloud. I truely feel like Im bein

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what shipping method did you choose?
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