October 1999
Intermediate to advanced
754 pages
36h 7m
English
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About the Author
David Flanagan is the author of the bestselling Java in a Nutshell. When
David isn’t busy writing about Java, he is a consulting computer program-
mer, user interface designer, and trainer. His other books with O’Reilly
include JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Netscape IFC in a Nutshell, X
Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, and Motif Tools: Streamlined GUI
Design and Programming with the Xmt Library. David has a degree in
computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
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