Review by Billy Barron

"Java How to Program" by Deitel & Deitel (Prentice Hall; ISBN 0-13-263401-5) is marketed as the first University textbook on Java. This book is well thought out and contains many exercises. Since I already know Java, I'm probably not in the intended audience of the book, but I found much useful information in here anyway. Throughout the book, there are numerous tips on portability, common programming errors, programming practices, preformance, and other items. They are extremely useful and cover items that are not mentioned in most Java books. This book covers much traditional computer science material that I have not seen in other Java books, such as data structures.

I would recommend this book for classroom or personal use.