An introduction to using the Java Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) to develop applets and applications which have a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Culwin (South Bank U., London) uses a case study to illustrate four different styles of interface. He assumes the reader has some familiarity with Object Oriented Development (OOD) and its practical expression in Java. Each chapter contains a summary and exercises. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
FINTAN CULWIN, Ph.D., is a Reader in Software Engineering at the South Bank University, London, actively researching software engineering and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). He is the author of several books, including Java: An Object First Approach, Prentice Hall, 1998. Dr. Culwin has given a series of papers, workshops, and tutorials on Java and GUI design at major international conferences.