Computing with Java, 2/E

Art Gittleman, California State University Long Beach

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2002
Format: Paper; 736 pp

ISBN-10: 1576760596
ISBN-13: 9781576760598

Our Price: £40.99
Status: Not Yet Published
Estimated Availability: 25 May 2005

Description

This book presents an introduction to the Java programming language. It provides extensive exercises for students to actually do the work about which they read in the book.

For more information, please visit http://www.cecs.csulb.edu/~artg/cwj/cwj.html.

Table Of Contents

Introductory: Objects Before Control Structures
1. Computing with Java
2. Java Programming Basics
3. Software Engineering with Control Structures
4. More Control Structures and Types
5. Getting Started with Object-Oriented Programming
6. Event-Driven Programming
7. User Interfaces
8. Arrays
9. Inheritance
10. Window, Mouse, and Key Events
11. Exception Handling and Input/Output
12. Swing Components
13. Data Structures
14. Collections
15. Multimedia and Networking

Features

Annotated Example Programs–Almost two hundred complete programs are annotated with informative notes. These notes appear after the program, separated from the textual sections, which explain the concepts. Students do not have to search through the text to find an explanation of a line of code. The notes also eliminate the need for detailed embedded comments which make the Java code hard to read.

Exercises–Java is not a spectator sport!
Test Your Understanding exercises provide an immediate opportunity to use the ideas presented. Some, labeled Try It Yourself encourage the learner to experiment with the examples, modifying them to better understand the principles involved. Program Modification Exercises … because much of a professional programmer's work involves modifying existing code. Putting It All Together Exercises revisit examples from previous chapters in the light of the new ideas in the current chapter. Program Design Exercises appear in quantity to provide a variety of assignments at varying levels of difficulty to enable students to gain hands-on experience with the concepts covered. Critical Thinking Exercises provide multiple choice questions, which force students to think about the concepts. Debugging Exercises include finding both logic and syntax errors.

The Big Picture–Big Picture boxes, throughout each book, help students distinguish the conceptual "forest" from the syntactical "trees".

Programs–The programs in any of Gittleman's Java books will run in any environment that supports the Java 2 Platform. (In the Java numbering scheme the version must be 1.2 or higher.)

Software Engineering–Gittleman integrates software engineering throughout each of his texts: program design with pseudocode; debugging techniques. Solving Problems with Java illustrate software-engineering principles in the context of solving problems.

Case Studies develop extended examples, like students will see in the real world.

Cases, scenarios, and UML are introduced and used in every Gittleman text.

Event-driven programming is introduced gradually and thoroughly….it's not an afterthought, as in many Java texts.

Student Supplements

CS Support-Student Support Material
Addison-Wesley
© 2008 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Available
ISBN-10: 0321446852 | ISBN-13: 9780321446855
The "CS Support" Website is a central repository for additional supplemental items that students and general reader will find useful when working with this textbook. The material for each book varies, but may include such items as: Source Code files, Figures from the book, Answers to some review questions, etc.. To see what items are available for this textbook, visit http://www.aw.com/cssupport.

Instructor Supplements