Mastering JavaFX 10: Build advanced and visually stunning Java applications

Mastering JavaFX 10 is a perfect collection of smart, real-life, and visually appealing tutorials. Anyone who wants to learn JavaFX 10 from the very beginning can easily find the required directions and guidelines. On the other hand, those, who already use previous versions of JavaFX, can benefit from new insights and advanced examples.My personal experience with JavaFX is limited to the JavaFX 8 release. Sergey's book helped me quickly grasp the new features appeared in the latest releases of JavaFX. In particular, I found the Packaging with Java 9 Jigsaw chapter very helpful as it covers the concepts I wasn't fully aware of. Also, I couldn't imagine how 3D effects can be straightforward and easy to apply. I highly recommend this book to all GUI developers.

All JavaFx literatures i read before are not that organized, concrete, and comprehensive as this book. Great book! This helped me with my training lectures.

I'm just read a few chapters and can say that every chapter is a merely "overview". There are serios mistakes in the code examples, sometimes the code will not run unless you advice the errors or missing code and make corrections (ClockTwo). I found deprecated code in those examples (like the deprecated methods of the Date() class in the ClockTwo example). This book is just a scratch on the surface of JavaFX, if you want to really learn each topic you have to search on the web and other books to understand what the author is talking about.

This book does an excellent job to explain each aspect of JavaFX for the absolute beginner (as I'm). The book contains many examples that are hosted on GitHub (it is very convenient).Since this book is about GUI, I ignored other parts of the examples (like deprecated methods, warnings, etc.). I wanted to learn how to create a GUI in JavaFX, and this book will help me get started.I definitely will use this book as a reference manual when I need to create a GUI in Java.

The book cover photo reflects what's inside: a random collection of gems without much depth or breadth. It is unclear who the intended audience is. If you are new to JavaFx, you are much better off subscribing to one of many online courses and tutorials on the subject. You may even find the book incomprehensible. If you are an advanced JavaFx user, you are probably not going to buy a book on the subject. If you are an intermediate user like me, looking for a comprehensive reference book on JavaFx, this is not it. In spite of its shortcomings, I actually enjoy reading it. I keep it in the bathroom and read a few random pages at a time. Every once in a while, I'll say, "That's cool. I didn't know that." If you are willing to drop 44 bucks on an interesting bathroom read, this is the book for you.

I would say this book gives a great *introduction* to all of the features JavaFX has to offer. I was coming into this book with lots of Swing experience and only a little JavaFX experience (I read some online JavaFX tutorials and hacked together a basic JavaFX application). This book filled a lot of the gaps in my knowledge and taught me a lot of new things.There are a lot of of typos and grammatical errors, which was annoying as a native English speaker.All of the book's code samples are hosted on Github, which is convenient. I got a few compilation errors, but I assume this is because I'm not using Java 10, which is what the book is based on. Like the other reviewer alluded to, the code isn't exactly “production ready”. Notably, there are tons of deprecation warnings (for example, the author is fond of using deprecated methods from the ancient java.util.Date class). But all the code samples ran fine for me.A few of the sections in the book rely on color to get their point across. However, the book is printed in black and white. They provide a PDF you can download which contains color versions of all the images in the book (the link to this PDF is located in the Preface). However, I would rather not have to switch between reading a PDF and reading the book. The publisher really goofed up there.In summary, as a beginner JavaFX programmer, it was nice to have a book that gave me an overview of all the features JavaFX has to offer. The price tag of $45 was a little high though.

Just a collection of code snippets. Lot of code does not compile as-is. NOT OKAY! Please update your material and make it available to those of us who wasted money on this book.