I can’t find Java 2 standard edition sdk! HELP ME PLZ!

This book got me started with the Head First series and I have not looked back. Conveniently, for what I have been looking to achieve, the series has proven itself invaluable. They have books for each of the topics that have been important to the tasks I have been provided – giving me the ability to learn quickly and the methods used for teaching have been fantastic. The part at the beginning of the books mentioning “how” they are going to teach you and “why” really helped me appreciate this book because that side of learning development is something else I have read a lot on. They had me from hello, so to speak.

I found myself picking up the JSP book (and will probably get the design patterns book) for no reason other than I know I will learn something new from them, and quickly.

This is not just a review for this book, but all of them really.

I must admit the HTML5 book is the only one that appeared to be a little rushed. A few typos here and there can be forgiven in what has been the best series of books I have come across for learning the topics covered.

Brilliant work guys and girls – anyone undecided on whether this is the book for them… if it’s Head First, you won’t go far wrong.

just curious but will you be making new java books as the java gets updated?

Is anyone having problems getting the guessgame (p39-40) code to run? I copied it out but keep getting the error ‘Error: Main method not found in class guessgame.GuessGame, please define the main method as:

public static void main(String[] args)

This error comes up on the Game launcher class, on the line ‘public static void main(String[] args)’. I don’t understand why I’m being told this line isn’t in the project on the very line that states it? I get the same error if I copy the wickedlysmart download code into a new file. I’m using NetBeans if that is anything to do with it?
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/*

* To change this template, choose Tools | Templates

* and open the template in the editor.

*/

package guessgame;

/**

*

* @author D.C

*/

public class GuessGame {

/**

* @param args the command line arguments

*/

Player p1;

Player p2;

Player p3;

public void startGame() {

// TODO code application logic here

p1 = new Player();

p2 = new Player();

p3 = new Player();

int guessp1 = 0;

int guessp2=0;

int guessp3=0;

boolean p1isRight = false;

boolean p2isRight = false;

boolean p3isRight=false;

int targetNumber = (int) (Math.random()) *10;

System.out.println(“I’m thinking of a number between 1 and 9…”);

while (true){

System.out.println(“Number to guess is ” + targetNumber);

p1.guess();

p2.guess();

p3.guess();

guessp1 = p1.number;

System.out.println(“Player one guessed “+ guessp1);

guessp2 = p2.number;

System.out.println(“Player two guessed “+guessp2);

guessp3 = p3.number;

System.out.println(“Player three guessed ” + guessp3);

if (guessp1 == targetNumber){

p1isRight = True;

}

if (guessp2 == targetNumber){

p2isRight = True;

}

if (guessp3 == targetNumber){

p3isRight = True;

}

if (p1isRight |p2isRight|p3isRight){

System.out.println(“We have a winner”);

System.out.println(“Player one got it right? ” +p1isRight);

System.out.println(“Player two got it right?” + p2isRight);

System.out.println(“Player three got it right?”+ p3isRight);

System.out.println(“Game is over”);

break; // game over, so break out of the loop

}else{

//Keep going until someone is right

System.out.println(“Players will have to try again”);

}// end if / else

} //end loop

// end method

//end class

}

public class Player{

int number =0; // where the guess goes

public void guess(){

number = (int) (Math.random()*10);

System.out.println(“I’m guessing ” + number);

}

public class GameLauncher{

public static void main(String[] args){

GuessGame game = new GuessGame();

game.startGame();

}

}

}

}

What IDE should i use when i read head first java book..Thank you

Really hard to understand…

Yes, it’s unfortunate, but the books don’t scale well for Kindle. And because of the way the books are created it’s impossible to reformat for Kindle.

If you have a specific question about Chapter 4, let us know!