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Author/s : Carol Hamer
Publisher : Apress
Category : Miscellaneous Java
Review by : Mark Spritzler
Rating : 4 horseshoes</pre>
Well, I have been putting off this review for a week and a half now. I have a difficult time when I have to post a bad review. I feel bad for the author, and all the time that they put into writing these books.
I was really looking forward to reading this book, as a couple of friends of mine want to write a mobile device game. I thought I would be able to learn how in this book.
In J2ME Games with MIDP2, the authors attempts to teach us how to use the Game API package that is included in MIDP2.0. Unfortunately, the book spends way too much time giving code, than in really explaining the best ways to use the API. I'd say 1/2 of the book is just code. Plus the code has so many comments that it makes it very difficult to read the code. I would have suggested printing snippets, and describing it with prose.
The games that are samples are pretty cool, and I think they are great examples that could have been put to better use.
If you get Jonathan Knudsen's book on J2ME, also printed by Apress, you can learn just as much, but only in 22 pages.
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