Introduction to Java Programming, Comprehensive: International Edition

Liang, Y. Daniel

ISBN 10: 0131857215 / ISBN 13: 9780131857216

Published by Pearson, 2004

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004325851

Synopsis:

For courses in Java–Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Programming.

 

The Fifth Edition of this outstanding text is revised in every detail to enhance clarity, content, presentation, examples, and exercises. Now expanded to include more extensive coverage of advanced Java topics, this new edition is available two ways. Choose the Comprehensive edition (chapters 1-29) that includes the new advanced material or choose the Custom Core version (chapters 1-16) that covers material through exception handling and IO. The early...

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From the Back Cover:

This text adopts the "fundamentals-first" strategy, proceeding at a steady pace through all the necessary and important basic concepts, and building up to object-oriented. programming. Students then move to using the object-oriented approach to build GUI applications and applets with exception handling, I/O, data structures, internationalization, multithreading, multimedia, and networking. Every chapter has been completely revised, malting for concise reading that is engaging, and at the same tune, easy to understand. Suited for beginning and advanced students from two-semester first-year programming courses to one-semester courses in Java as a second language. This book has also been used in short training courses for experienced programmers.

KEY FEATURES

• Uses hands-on examples of basic features.
• Provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of programming.
• Contains in-depth treatment of object-oriented programming.
• Includes extensive examples of GUI programming.
• Covers advanced Java topics.
• Incorporates coverage of all the subjects required for the Level 1 Java Certification Exam.
• Offers more than 600 self-test questions from the author's online interactive website.

NEW

• Improved presentation of primitive data types, expressions, loops, methods, and arrays.
• The standard JOptionPane class replaces MyInput.
• Object-Oriented Programming is expanded into four chapters to provide an in-depth introduction.
• Strings are given a separate chapter.
• Object-Oriented Software Development introduces the UML, approach and fosters the concept of reusable components.
• Brand new chapter on Java Data Structures introduces Java collections framework.
• New organization provides flexible ordering of chapters so instructors can easily customize the book.
• Several new appendices offer readers additional background information and supplemental material.
• Problem-solving steps are described in the examples.
• New examples have been added on GUI programming, threads, and I/O.
• Author website link available at www.prenhall.com/liang/intro4e.html

Bibliographic Details

Title: Introduction to Java Programming, ...
Publisher: Pearson
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 5th or later Edition