ISBN 10: 0138421390 ISBN 13: 9780138421397

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

This package offers a complete training course in Java, providing practical "hands-on" advice and guidance to users.

From the Publisher:

A complete interactive Java course: go beyond Web applets! Now, programmers and students can take a complete, highly-interactive multimedia course in Java and object-oriented programming at a small fraction of the cost of live training. This Cyber Classroom on CD-ROM introduces all the fundamentals of Java, including its implementation of object-oriented features. It covers every important aspect of Java, including graphical user interface development, multimedia, graphics, multithreading, Internet and intranet networking, file handling, application portability and security. It includes hundreds of "live code" programs that users can copy onto disk with a single click, and run from the Java Developer's Kit, included free on the CD-ROM. This is a companion product to Java: How to Program, the #1 Java textbook by the authors of the best-selling C: How to Program and C++: How to Program.

From the Back Cover:

A complete Java training course on CD-ROM.
Simply the best way to learn Java!
Java: It's a lot more than just cool Web applets! Java is revolutionizing software development by allowing programmers to write platform-independent, object-oriented code for conventional and Internet-based applications. Now there's a breakthrough system that lets you learn Java any time you want, any way you want. It's The Java Multimedia Cyber Classroom, and it's simply the fastest, best way ever to learn Java.
Java comes to life!
Top corporate trainers Harvey and Paul Deitel have packaged a complete, proven Java training course on this fully-interactive CD- ROM. It's all here. Thorough, well-organized, clear coverage of every important Java concept, based on their best-selling book Java How to Program, and their wildly successful corporate training classes.
You get 5 full hours of audio. Over 200 complete, working Java programs that contain over 12,000 lines of tested code. Over 350 programming tips. Hundreds of exercises with solutions. A comprehensive hyperlinked reference you'll use again and again -- even after you learn Java. You even get Sun's latest Java Development Kit (JDK) -- free!
See it, hear it, do it!
You'd have to spend hundreds of dollars to get more interactivity and personal help than you'll find on this CD- ROM. Click to learn a new concept. Then click to see how it's implemented in live, working code. Click to hear expert Paul Deitel talk you through the code, step-by-step. Click to copy the code to your hard disk, where you can modify and run it yourself with the JDK. Want tips for optimizing performance? Click again. Testing and debugging tips? No problem. Just click one more time. (Before you know it, it'll all start to click!)
*When you know Java, you'll be in sizzling hot demand!

*The better your Java programming skills are, the better
you'll do in today's highly competitive marketplace. Now, you can get those skills at your own pace, on your own time, on your Windows PC. All you need is the Java Multimedia Cyber Classroom. It might just be the best investment you'll ever make.
*Top corporations pay Harvey and Paul Deitel thousands of
dollars a day to train programmers in Java and object- oriented programming techniques. And they're worth every penny.
System Requirements

80486 or higher IBM PC or compatible

*Microsoft WindowsTM 95 or Windows NT

*16 MB RAM

*20 MB free hard disk space

*MPC-compatible CD-ROM drive

*SVGA video

*SoundBlasterTM or compatible sound card

Don't take our word for it!
What reviewers are saying about the Cyber Classroom Series...
"... What we liked best about this product was the feeling of being in a classroom. If you get stumped... ask the program's 'professor' for a verbal description or a chalkboard example." PC Magazine "Companies invest thousands of dollars in retraining. Or they can invest $69.95 in the The C and C++ Cyber Classroom..." The New York Times "...offers burned-out Cobol programmers and aspiring code jocKeys a way to upgrade to the hottest programming languages." Information Week