(Harvey & Paul) Deitel & Deitel

Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 1568 pp

ISBN-10:	0131290142
ISBN-13:	9780131290143

Our Price: £48.87
Status: Not Yet Published
Estimated Availability: 06 Jan 2005

The Deitels' groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. The texts in the series feature hundreds of complete, working programs with thousands of lines of code—more than any other texts of their kind. Now, the world's best-selling Java textbook is again completely up-to- date with The Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0.

NEW–Fully updated to Java’s J2SE 5.0 with coverage on all-new language features such as generics, scanner class, formatter class, autoboxing, etc.

NEW–Chapters on recursion and searching and sorting.

NEW–Several major new integrated case studies throughout the text reinforce fundamentals.

NEW-Time class (3 sections of Ch. 8).

NEW–Employee class (Ch. 9 & 10).

NEW–Gradebook class (Ch. 3-5 & 7).

NEW—DeitelMessenger instant messaging application (Ch. 24).

NEW–Two multi-tier Web apps - online survey and a guest book (Ch. 27).

NEW—Optional new streamlined OOD/UML case study on an ATM system (Chapters 1-8 and 10) that teaches the fundamentals of software engineering and OOD with the UML and replaces the outdated and overly long elevator case study.

NEW–Optional GUI and graphics track (Chapters 3 - 12) with additional coverage on GUI and graphics in later chapters.

NEW—Applets coverage was moved from Ch. 3 out to Ch. 20.

NEW–Text now includes a dependency chart to aid professors in working out a syllabus and an appendix on navigating the API documentation for students new to the material.

NEW—All new interior design that’s cleaner and easier to read!

NEW–Autoboxing

~NEW - Enumerations

~NEW - Enhanced for loops

~NEW - Static import statements

~NEW - Variable-length argument lists

~NEW - New Formatter class (C-style formatted output)

~NEW - New Scanner class for simpler keyboard inputs

~NEW - Generics

~NEW - Concurrency APIs

~NEW - Revised examples and exercises

~NEW - New condensed OOD/UML case study

~NEW - New Recursion and Searching and Sorting chapters

~NEW - Text-file processing

Innovative Pedagogy–The DEITEL® signature Live-Code Approach presents each new concept in the context of a complete, working program, immediately followed by one or more windows showing the program's input/output dialog.

Syntax Coloring–Enhances the Live-Code Approach in full- color DEITEL® books; addressed through shading in one- and two-color DEITEL® books.

~Green code denotes comments

~Dark blue code indicates programming language keywords

~Light blue code specifies constants and literal values

~Red code highlights scripting delimiters and errors

~Black code designates text, classes, methods and variable names.

Helpful Programming Tips–Every DEITEL® text incorporates a consistent and applied pedagogy, including hundreds of programming tips, recommended practices and cautions, all marked by icons. Tips include:

~Good Programming Practices

~Common Programming Errors

~Error-Prevention Tips

~Performance Tips

~Portability Tips

~Software Engineering Observations

~Look and Feel Observations

CD-ROM with every text–Includes (subject to change):

~Java(tm) 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0

~Netbeans

~Apache Tomcat

~JCreator LE version

~jEdit

~jGRASP

~BlueJ

~MySQL

~Source code for all the book's examples

~Hyperlinks to valuable Java demos and Internet resources

Cyber Classroom- includes: 

~EBook, student solutions manual, lab manual, assessment, audio walkthrough of code.

~Student Access Card bundled FREE with every text.