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| In This Issue... | Welcome to the Deitel™ Buzz Online! | ||||||||||||
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"Each problem that I solved became a rule,
which served afterwards to solve other problems." Other sections of interest in this issue: Ancillaries for Instructors and
Students Java How to Program 4/e Hits #1 at Barnes & Noble Online!
On May 16th, 2002, Java™ How to Program, 4/e was ranked first out of 1,773 Java™ titles available at Barnes & Noble Online Bookstore. Other Deitel publications ranked in the top 75 included Advanced Java™ 2 Platform How to Program (18), Java™ How to Program, 3/e (34), The Complete Java™ 2 Training Course, 4/e (61) and C How to Program, 3/e (75), which contains solid introductions to C++ and Java. Additional Deitel rankings by topic include: C++ Programming (out of 1,417 titles):
Internet & World Wide Web Programming (out of 600 titles):
Visual Basic .NET Programming (out of 114 titles):
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We hope you enjoyed our inaugural issue. We sincerely appreciate all your comments and feedback. In this issue, we take an in-depth look at Web services, the hottest new software technology of 2002. We provide a general overview of Web services, what they are and how they will impact industry. We introduce the technical standards used in Web services and discuss Java™ Web services. E-mail your questions or comments about this newsletter to buzzfeedback@deitel.com. We look forward to hearing from you! In the Next Issue:
COMING
IN AUGUST 2002! The world's best selling C++ textbook is now even better! Designed for beginning through intermediate courses, C++ How to Program, Fourth Edition, will include the following new features:
[Note: Improvements listed here are subject to change.]
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Deitel and Associates Has Moved to:
12 Clock Tower Place, Suite 200 To learn more about our new headquarters, visit the Lore & Legend of Deitel section. It's All Greek To Me! Four Deitel Texts Translated Into Greek.We are pleased to announce that Moschos Giurdas Publishers is translating the following four Deitel textbooks into Greek:
These texts are our first Greek translations. Over the years, many of our books have been translated into multiple languages, including traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, German, Korean and Spanish. To view a complete list of Deitel translations, visit
www.deitel.com/books/booktranslations.html Deitel™ Buzz Online Hits Milestone!On May 18, 2002 at 1:21 PM (EST), our newsletter received its 10,000th registration from Edward Petty of Detroit, MI. We asked Mr. Petty if he would be kind enough to supply us with some information about himself and his background. Our thanks to Mr. Petty: Mr. Petty works for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan as an IS manager/technology architect. He has an MBA in Technology Management, and this year marks his 24th with BCBSM. Mr. Petty also teaches undergraduate and graduate MIS courses at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Thanks to all our readers who have participated and made this possible. |
Deitel™ 2002 Publishing PlanSummer 2002 Publications: Deitel™ Developer
Series (for Professional Programmers)
In stock in August: How to Program Series Complete Training Course Series
Fall 2002 Publications (available for January 2003 classes):
2003 Publications
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In every issue, we use this section to highlight a different technology such as .NET, Java™, Visual Basic .NET, C#, XML, C++, C, Perl, Python, Internet and wireless Internet programming. Each issue contains articles focusing on a specific technology. We also include sample programs and applications designed using our signature LIVE-CODE™ Approach. Articles"Beginning of the teaching for life, An Introduction to Web Services, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI Web services are software programs that use XML to exchange information with other software via common Internet protocols. This article introduces key concepts behind Web services and the standards used to enable Web service interactions, including SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). An Introduction to Java Web Services with JAX-RPC: Part 1 The Java API for XML-based Remote Procedure Calls (JAX-RPC) provides a clean API for building standards-based Web services and clients. This article introduces JAX-RPC using the DEITEL™ signature LIVE-CODE™ Approach. This approach to teaching uses complete, working code examples, followed by screenshots of the input and output dialog boxes. This article, the first in a two-part series, presents code for building a Web service using JAX-RPC. The second article will be featured in the next issue of the DEITEL™ BUZZ ONLINE; it shows how to implement a Web services client using JAX-RPC. |
To view the complete Deitel product catalog, which contains all publications in the How to Program Series, the Deitel™ Developer Series, the Complete Training Course Series and all international translations, visit www.deitel.com/books/index.html. |
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For Professionals: Announcing the NEW Deitel™ Developer SeriesComing in late Summer 2002 to bookstores and online booksellers!
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Deitel™
Developer Series—a new Deitel book series for practicing
professionals. This series offers focused treatments of emerging technologies. If you have any questions on which book or series is right for you, please contact us at deitel@deitel.com. To view our complete Deitel product catalog, visit www.deitel.com/books/index.html. 
New Complete Training Courses from Deitel &
Associates!
Includes C# How to Program and the C# Multimedia Cyber Classroom (interactive CD-ROM for Windows) [Note: To see a complete list of features included in our Cyber Classroom and Complete Training Course products, visit the Cyber Classrooms and Complete Training Courses section of this newsletter or www.phptr.com/phptrinteractive.]
Includes Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition and the Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Second Edition (interactive CD-ROM for Windows) [Note: To see a complete list of features included in our Cyber Classroom and Complete Training Course products, visit the Cyber Classrooms and Complete Training Courses section of this newsletter or www.phptr.com/phptrinteractive.]
Includes Python How to Program and the Python Multimedia Cyber Classroom (interactive CD-ROM for Windows/Linux) [Note: To see a complete list of features included in our Cyber Classroom and Complete Training Course products, visit the Cyber Classrooms and Complete Training Courses section of this newsletter or www.phptr.com/phptrinteractive.] |
Ancillaries For Instructors, Corporate Training Directors and StudentsDeitel & Associates offers a wide variety of ancillary materials for professors, corporate trainers, developers and college students, including:
For Instructors Using C How to Program, 3/eWe are pleased to announce the availability of more than 400 additional
multiple-choice test questions (and answers) for the C portion (Chapters
2-13) of C How to Program, 3/e. Instructors can obtain these
questions and answers by contacting their regular Prentice Hall sales
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| Testimonial: Java™ Certification | NEW! Getting Started with Forte for Java | ||||||||||||
Everyday we receive e-mails from our readers around the world regarding our products and services. John Beck of the UK recently wrote to us about Java™ How to Program, 3/e, and we have received his permission to quote him in our newsletter: "I recently took the Sun Java Platform certification exam to further my career prospects by gaining an industry recognized qualification. To understand the objectives of the exam, I downloaded the certification success guide from the Sun education site. I then returned to Deitel's text to make sure I had a proper "handle" on the relevant subjects, and then took the mock test from the Sun site in order to identify areas of study that were still weak. I passed my Sun Java Platform certification about an hour ago. I felt compelled to write as I was completely computer illiterate up until 18 months ago, and the precise nature of your book, and its clarity have quite literally altered my life." Our thanks to Mr. Beck and all of our readers who send in comments and suggestions. If you have any questions or would like to provide us with feedback on our products, please e-mail us at deitel@deitel.com. Review of Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/ePeter Valassis, editor of Visual Basic Books.com and A1VBCode.com, recently reviewed our Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e. Please read the full review and check out the Web sites mentioned above for information on Visual Basic .NET. |
Forte for Java™Tutorial Coming SoonWe are pleased to announce our newest addition to the Deitel Getting Started with... free downloadable tutorials: Getting Started with Forte for Java™ Community Edition 3.0 and the Java 2 Software Development Kit 1.4. The first printings of our textbooks Java™ How to Program, Fourth Edition and Advanced Java™ 2 Platform How to Program include CDs containing Sun's Forte for Java Community Edition 2.0 and the Java 2 Software Development Kit (J2SDK) 1.3.1—the most recent versions of these products at publication time. Due to our publisher's contractual agreements with Sun, each reprint of these books must include the most up-to-date versions of Forte and the J2SDK. The second printing of Java How to Program, Fourth Edition includes Forte for Java Community Edition 3.0 and the J2SDK 1.4. As a service to our readers, we have written and will post Getting Started with Forte for Java Community Edition 3.0 and the Java 2 Software Development Kit 1.4 to our Web site shortly. This Getting Started with... publication shows readers how to:
This publication will be available to download at www.deitel.com/books/downloads.html#java. |
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Extensive research and development goes into writing each Deitel publication. This process adds to our current knowledge base and uncovers new technologies and information that might lead to new publications. Here are just a few of the ongoing research projects at Deitel:
If you would like to recommend topics for future publications, please send your suggestions to deitel@deitel.com. |
Deitel & Associates, Inc., is committed to supporting both established
and emerging programming languages. We are working with (and have a
small equity interest in) Clear Methods, Inc., a company that has developed
a new programming language called Water. |
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Web Services Development with Java™We are pleased to announce our latest corporate training course. Learn about one of the hottest technologies in the software industry—Java™ Web services. Course Description
This course also covers general Web services technologies, including:
Lab exercises provide seminar participants with experience in constructing and deploying small- to medium-scale Web services. Course Facts: 5-days, Lecture and Lab format Audience: Experienced Java Programmers Cost: $13,995 lecture fee +$30 materials fee per students + instructor travel reimbursement To view the full course outline, please visit www.deitel.com/training/Java/java_WebServices.html [Note: The outline is based on our forthcoming publication,
Java™ Web Services for Experienced Programmers, and reflects
the state-of-the-art in Web Services. Java™ Web Services for
Experienced Programmers is scheduled for publication in July as
part of the new Deitel™ Developer Series.] |
Corporate Training Course Topics
For pricing and course outlines, please click the above links, visit www.deitel.com/training, e-mail us directly or call Christi Kelsey—our Director of Corporate Training Programs—at (978) 823-0130. |
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"Please prepare a report of all the pensioners in the state of Connecticut who died last year in alphabetical order." Why did this relatively simple request cross his eyes? Send your answers to buzzfeedback@deitel.com. We look forward to your responses, and we will summarize them in the next issue of the Deitel™ Buzz Online. Here are some of the responses we received to the challenge in the last issue: Question: "What product could be manufactured at an entity called the "red-brick factory?" Answers:
Our question demonstrates that communication via natural languages (like English) suffers from ambiguity problems. This presents tremendous challenges to researchers who are working to get computers to communicate with one another and with people via natural languages. |
The History Behind Our New OfficesWe are pleased to announce that Deitel & Associates has moved its world headquarters to Maynard, Massachusetts, just a few miles northwest of our previous offices. We are in Clock Tower Place, a high-technology office park containing more than 85 companies, including Monster, AOL, BEA Systems, Lucent Technologies, Palm, WorldCom, Verizon and many others. Our new offices have special significance to us. Our corporate on-site training business began in 1989 with Digital Equipment Corporation. Their worldwide headquarters was located at "The Mill" in Maynard—a former textile mill built in the 1800s. Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman of Deitel & Associates, taught numerous C and C++ courses to Digital engineers at The Mill. Digital was subsequently purchased by Compaq, and their operations at The Mill were moved elsewhere. A real-estate developer renamed the Mill "Clock Tower Place" and transformed it into an enormous office park. We are in the suite of offices once occupied by Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital, a company which at its peak, was the second largest computer company in the world. We are back where it all began for Deitel & Associates, Inc. |
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Learn the hottest technologies and be a part of a winning organization!If you are...
Deitel & Associates, Inc., may be right for you. Click any of the following links to learn about the kinds of opportunities that become available from time to time. Our corporate training business always has teaching
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In
the early 1970s, when Harvey Deitel was an information systems consultant
for an actuarial firm, the following requirements document came across
his desk:
