Good book, questionable topic coupling and poor printing

I was assigned this book by Dr. Kann as part of an online course in concurrent programming and object-oriented design at University of Maryland University College. This book is particularly well-suited to that class but I question its usefulness as a generic resource for either concurrent programming or object-oriented principles. In my opinion those topics each deserve full treatment in their own book. Kann is a clear writer and good teacher, and the book is replete with examples, although some of the examples span multiple pages in such a way that they are difficult to read and follow. In my opinion a book on programming should have large enough pages to show entire code snippets on one page instead of forcing many to span 3-5 pages. Also, some of the commentary about the code snippets is found on pages you might not necessarily expect. If you are assigned this book for a class it is nothing to be afraid of, but I not recommend this book for general purchase, there are many better books out there.

Other Reviews

• Reasonable Presentation
• Good book, questionable topic coupling and poor printing
• Great introduction to concurrent programming with objects