Programming with java is a excellent text book for the diploma students. Basically I have experience in polytechnic college.
Based on the curriculum syllabus for the department of computer science, This is the text book for the subject of Programming in Java.
This book is written in simple english language, so students are understand the concept very easily.
In this book, Object Oriented program, the basic concept for the java program is explained in simple method. The 8 characteristic of oops explained in simple example.
Students can understand easily. The lecturers also follow the book easily and students score mark higher.
Also the other topics like data hiding, polymorphism, inheritance, beans, and bitmaps explained with standard examples.
Not only the diploma students, the arts and science and engineering students also refer this book so much.
Because of the simplification of the concept and simple language. This author written and published many books related to the computer language.