Re: Netbeans Tutorial Issue

The other book (https://leanpub.com/nbp4beginners) is much better. And it
was written for the newer version of the platform, so it's more up to date.

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Lusito <[email protected]> wrote:

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> geertjan wrote:
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> > as well as this book:
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> > https://www.amazon.com/JavaFX-Client-Programming-NetBeans-Pl
> atform/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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