Eclipse For Dummies
by Barry Burd
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Author: Barry BurdEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-12-31
ISBN: 0764574701
Number of pages: 360
Publisher: For Dummies
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Book Review: An Eclipse book for the application programmer.
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book because it's purpose is to teach the use of Eclipse for the sake of using Eclipse. That is as opposed to using Eclipse to enhance Eclipse, ie, writing plugins. It did an admirable job of achieving that purpose. The writing style is relaxed and intended to be conversational.
Eclipse for Dummies is about 335 pages in length. The book has four major sections, each section containing one or more chapters for a grand total of 18 chapters. Section 1 is the basic introduction to Eclipse and covers installing and understanding the conceptual design of Eclipse. There is a good discussion of perspectives, views, and the difference of the two. Java programming examples are presented at each step and I would stronly encourage the reader to replicate the examples themselves. If you skip the implementing the examples, your going to get a lot less from the book. This goes for entirety of the book. Section 2 comprising chapters 6-12, goes into greater depth in discussing the features of the Eclipse programming environment. This is where the tricks of the trade are focused on, for example, using the Java editor, code assist, documentation,and formatting helps. Refactoring is heavily discussed as it probably should be. Section 3 comprising chapters 13-16 discusses working with projects, running the code, and debugging. Now personally, I would have thought that should have been up front, however, given the number of programming examples laced throughout the earlier chapters the reader is kind of already given a good introduction to creating and maintaining multiple source files and packages within a project. Section 4 is just a little add-on kind of thing which discusses the ten most FAQs and suggestions for what plugins you might want to add.
I gave the book four stars, but really I would have given it a 3.75. I looked around a lot for Eclipse tutorial books, but found that they moved too fast, assummed too much on the part of the reader, and apparently assumed the reader wanted to join the Eclipse team. Eclipse for Dummies was the best book I have found so far for the typical programmer who wants to use Eclipse for the sake of creating applications.
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