Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Serious flaws hamper otherwise good book ....

Holzner does a good job of helping beginning java programmers learn to code some little applets. HOWEVER, the Java 1.2 examples in the book do not work! If the author (and/or editors) would have taken the time to test them with the JDK 1.2 , they would have discovered this. Obviously they did not.These examples were written for a previous version of Java and simply not updated. Another example of slapping a Java 2 title onto an old Java 1.1 book.This present a critical obstacle to the newbie who will not know how to alter the programs to get them running. This flaw is serious enough for me to disuade anyone from purchasing this book unless they have a Java expert handy to guide them through the correction process.Very sloppy job of editing, guys!