Java For Students, 5th edition


By Douglas Bell & Mike Parr
February 2006
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9780131735798
552 pages, Illustrated
$134.00 Paper Original

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Description

A gradual step-by-step approach to learning Java that concentrates on GUI programs and programs that display graphical output.

The text takes a bottom-up approach, starting with the fundamentals of programming before introducing some of the more complex concepts of objects and classes.

Contents

Detailed contents Introduction Guided tour

1. The background to Java
2. First programs
3. Using graphics methods
4. Variables and calculations
5. Methods and parameters
6. Using objects
7. Selection
8. Repetition
9. Writing classes
10. Inheritance
11. Calculations
12. Array lists
13. Arrays
14. Arrays-two dimensional
15. String manipulation
16. Exceptions
17. Files and console applications
18. Object-oriented design
19. Program style
20. Testing
21. Debugging
22. Threads
23. Interfaces
24. Programming in the large - packages
25. Polymorphism
26. Java in context

Appendices Index

Features

• Graphics are used throughout to illustrate programming principles.
• A wealth of exercises and self-test questions with solutions.
• A CD-ROM containing the JDK 1.5 and source code for all programs.
• Check out the companion website for the book at www.pearsoned.co.uk/bell to find additional resources for both students and instructors.

Author

Douglas Bell and Mike Parr have based the book on courses they teach at Sheffield Hallam University.  They have also authored student texts on C# and VB .NET, and Douglas Bell is also the author of Software Engineering for Students, now in its fourth edition.

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