Re: Netbeans Tutorial Issue

https://leanpub.com/nbp4beginners

On the page above you can see reviews of the book, which will answer 
your question about whether it focuses on teaching you the NetBeans 
Platform.

Gj


On 6-3-2017 16:47, Lusito wrote:
> geertjan wrote:
>> as well as this book:
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>> https://www.amazon.com/JavaFX-Client-Programming-NetBeans-Platform/dp/0321927710
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> I'm 1/3 through the book and so far I can't recommend it for several reasons:
> - biggest part of the book is printed out sourcecode
> - overall it feels more like a step by step - type what you see - writing the application the author wants you to kind of book.
> - a lot of useless text in there, either praising (netbeans, javafx,the reader), or repeating itself over and over with minor changes.
> (at multiple occasions, I skipped over several pages because they where mere duplicates of earlier pages)
> - I really wanted to go JavaFX with my app, but there are so many issues with javafx itself and some dealbreakers when it comes to combining it with netbeans (threading issues, visual style issues, ..).
> - A lot of things I still had to find out the hard way. For example the undo/redo manger is not mentioned anywhere in the book.
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> Is the nbp4beginners book more focused on actually teaching the NB Platform rather than letting you type off source-code?
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