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From: cvanbus@tcs.tulane.edu (Chris)
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Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 16 Dec 1995 17:08:44 GMT
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In article <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu>,
nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote:


>   Title:         Java!
>   B&N abstract:  Discover how to serve, configure, administer and support 
>                  Java on an Internet server with this detailed guide to
>                  the cutting-edge languge.  The enclosed CD-ROM contains
>                  ready-to-use Java applets.
>   Pub price:     $35.00
>   B&N's price:   $28.00
> 
>   Title:         Presenting Java
>   B&N abstract:  This quick inroduction to Java's basic concepts and 
>                  technical details explains how to download, install, 
>                  and use the HotJava Web browser, and covers the language,
>                  it's applets and object-orientated programming in general.
>   Pub price:     $25.00
>   B&N price:     $20.00
<snip>

I dont know about the first book, but "presenting java", gives more of a 
description on the language and its future.  It spends only about 50 pages
on source code.  i give it a D-.  There will be a couple of books out
next year which will be better.  I hope.

-- 
Chris Van Buskirk                     cvanbus@tcs.tulane.edu