Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects, 4/e
Tony Gaddis’s accessible, step-by-step style helps beginning students understand the important details necessary to become skilled programmers at an introductory level. Gaddis motivates the study of both programming skills and a programming language by presenting all the details needed to understand the “how” and the “why”–but never losing sight of the fact that most beginners struggle with this material. His approach is both gradual and highly accessible, ensuring that students get the logic behind developing high-quality programs.
In Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects, Gaddis covers procedural programming–control structures and methods–before introducing object-oriented programming. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter.
Table of Content
- Introduction to Computers and Java
- Java Fundamentals
- Decision Structures
- Loops and Files
- Methods
- A First Look at Classes
- A First Look at GUI Applications
- Arrays and the ArrayList Class
- A Second Look at Classes and Objects
- Text Processing and More about Wrapper Classes
- Inheritance
- Exceptions and Advanced File I/O
- Advanced GUI Applications
- Applets and More
- Recursion
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Salient Features
- Procedural programming - control structures and methods -is covered before objects ensuring that students understand fundamental programming and problem-solving concepts.
- The Fourth Edition is fully compatible with both Java (J2SE) 5.0 and the new version, Java 6.0.
- A clear and student-friendly writing style with stepped-out explanations motivates beginning programmers.
- Concise and practical real-world examples that students understand and relate to are included to foster motivation and retention.
- A variety of exercises in each chapter encourages students to put concepts to work as they are learned.
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