Walter Savitch
Frank M. Carrano

Publisher: Pearson Higher Education
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 1312 pp

ISBN-10:	0131354515
ISBN-13:	9780131354517

Our Price: £39.99
Status: Not Yet Published
Estimated Availability: 28 Jul 2008

For introductory Computer Science courses using Java (CS1with Java), and other introductory programming courses in departments of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, and Business.

Trusted authors Savitch and Carrano examine problem solving and programming techniques with Java. Students are introduced to object-oriented programming and important concepts such as design, testing and debugging, programming style, interfaces inheritance, and exception handling. The Java coverage is a concise, accessible introduction that covers key language features. Objects are covered thoroughly and early in the text, with an emphasis on application programs over applets. Revised throughout for enhanced clarity, the Fifth Edition has been entirely redesigned with a more accessible feel.

Supplements Include:

• Power Point Lecture Slides for the entire text.
• Selected Solutions to text exercises (complete Solutions Manual available 2/1/08)
• GOAL (Gradiance Online Accelerated Learning), http://www.prenhall.com/goal
• An accompanying  hard copy Lab Manual with source code will be available 2/15/08. 

Please go to: www.prenhall.com/savitch

Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers and Java

Chapter 2 Basic Computation

Chapter 3 Flow of Control: Branching

Chapter 4 Flow of Control: Loops

Chapter 5 Defining Classes and Methods

Chapter 6 More About Objects and Methods

Chapter 7 Arrays

Chapter 8 Polymorphism and Inheritance

Chapter 9 Exception Handling

Chapter 10 Streams and File I/O

Chapter 11 Recursion

Chapter 12 Dynamic Data Structures and Generics

Chapter 13 Window Interfaces Using Swing

Chapter 14 Applets and HTML

Chapter 15 More Swing

Appendix 1 Getting and Installing Java

Appendix 2 Running Applets

Appendix 3 Protected and Package Modifiers

Appendix 4 The DecimalFormat Class

Appendix 5 The Iterator Interface

Appendix 6 Cloning

Appendix 7 Javadoc

Appendix 8 The JOptionPane Class

Appendix 9 Differences between C++ and Java

Glossary

Index

Flexibility — the authors provide flexibility charts in the preface to enable the ordering of chapters and sections based n professor need.

Early Graphics — optional graphics sections at the end of most chapters make it possible to cover GUI programming from the start of the course. 

Coverage of problem-solving and programming techniques ~Includes numerous case studies and programming tips to foster the development of problem solving skills.

Support for learning Java syntax - extensive pedagogy throughout the text to aid with the learning of Java syntax issues.

Object-Oriented and Traditional Techniques — although students are exposed to using classes iin Chapters 1 and

2, the defining of objects is delayed until Chapter 5.  All of the basic information about objects and classes, including inheritance, is presented by the end of Chapter 8;

Language Details and Sample Code — Gives complete explanations of Java language features and lots of sample code.

Self-Test questions – are throughout the text to provide reinforcement.  These questions have a wide range of difficulty levels; some require only a one-word answer, whereas others require the reader to write an entire, but short program.

Fully class-tested – Much of the material and many of the methods of presentation were revised in response to this

class testing.

Student Resources – The source code from the book, code for extra programming examples, and links to download

locations for Java compilers and programming environments are provided on the book’s website: http://www.prenhall.com/savitch

Instructor’s Resource Guide – A chapter-by-chapter guide that contains numerous teaching hints, quiz questions with solutions, and solutions to many exercises and programming projects.

• Case studies and programming examples have been revised to emphasize design before coding so students understand the importance of problem solving.
• Flow of control (branching statements and loops) is covered in two chapters instead of one.
• The use of methods coverage is increased, and introduced earlier in the text.
• New examples have been added that demonstrate why instance variables should be private and how implementation can affect efficiency.
• Constructors are introduced earlier.
• Coverage of interfaces and polymorphism has been expanded.
• New topics are discussed: enumerations, for-each loops, and using the Java Scanner class to read text files.
• Recursion is covered before dynamic data structures and generics.
• The class ArrayList is introduced instead of the class Vector.
• Additional programming projects have been added at the end of each chapter.
• Pedagogical features have been revised. In addition to Programming Tips, FAQs, Remembers, and Gotchas, Recaps now summarize important concepts concisely and Asides provide short commentaries on relevant issues.