Mr. Bunny's Big Cup O' Java?

I don't get the negative reviews. Well, whatever. This is pure, hilarious, brilliant, hurts-when-you-laugh from a guy who knows his Java. Don't expect to learn anything about Java. It's just a stream of great injokes. Includes enormous curly braces, examples of white space, meeting "the primitives", explaining interfaces with a guy who's the mayor and a sheriff and a painter and a whole bunch of other things. And the illustrations are hilarious for anyone who's suffered through too many life cycle illustrations, those silly marketing layer diagrams, and "simple" illustrations of how Java works.Anyone who knows the difference between an interface and a class will love this.

For all the technical/non-technical people, this is a very good reading in leisure time. If you know the programming language he is talking about, that gives more fun. Wonderful reading, absolute funny style of writing.

WARNING: Do not read this book in a brick-and-mortar bookstore or you'll have people stare at you when they see you laugh uncontrollably. This is an excellent book for the beginner. The concepts are explained in way that is hard to forget. This reminds me of David Pogue's books: Accurate, yet enjoyable. This is not a book for the hard nosed Java programmer, but definitely worth a read for someone who is starting out with Java. Concepts are explained very accurately, and this is far removed from the 600-page tomes in the sense that this is safer: It's not heavy enough to smash your PC screen when you cant get that dang program to work! Interestingly enough, someone with little programming experience can also get the jokes. And for the other reviewers who take programming a little too seriously to be fun: Get a life! Also make sure you visit the author's (or publisher's?) home page at mrbunny.com. Highly and heartily recommended.

I wish this author would write more books. Books on C++, the Internet, etc... It's certainly a Dave-Barry-meets-Joe-Programmer kind of book, and I have to admit, even though it's hard to take this stuff seriously (ever other sentence is a play on words or programming concepts), the metaphors still explained some things very clearly.I'll never forget Inky, popping plates off a stack of plates in response to stack push and pop commands. If you're willing to take yourself less seriously and embrace the fact that programmers are really geeks, then you will laugh at this book. From Mr. Bunny's first appearance in chapter 1 (his first words are, of course, "Hello World!") to the last chapter's Home Sweet Home Page, this book is worth reading - if you can stand to laugh that hard.

Amazingly Wacked !! Like his previous Best Seller* that no normal person has ever heard of ("Mr. Bunny's Guide to Active X") this gem raises and answers questions that not even normal programmers (oxymoron?) would ever think to ask. E.g., "Which came first, the Comment or the Code?" -- answer -- White Space!It pokes fun at everything from its own copyright "No part of this book ... blah, blah, blah, without the secret handshake." to resume writing suggestions "... listing your greatest accomplishments (unless, of course, you are Monica Lewinsky.)" I liked "Diagram 1" which displayed everything from the top level ("Java Program") down to the lowest levels ("Pizza Crumbs" and "Tile or Carpet.") The Common Programming Errors section (like everything else) was also was amazingly creative (and more importantly, funny!) -- including "Calling no argument constructor when there is no no-argument constructor is a no-no resulting in an argument with the compiler." and "C."Finally, explaining the challenge the compiler faces -- making your java code understandable to a box of sand. (In all my years of compiler writing, I never though of this.)Get this book!! Even if you're not a nerd, it will have you rolling. (What about the "Backward" which is, of course, the Forward in reverse!)----*I saw this #1 rating in "Boston Software Newspaper" also, one of the local book store owners told me they sold nearly twice as many "Mr. Bunny's Guide to Active X" last year as the #2 title.)