Java: Your visual blueprint for building portable Java programs

Although experienced Java programmers will find the book useful as a reference, targets the beginning to intermediate programmer. The book assumes no previous Java experience, and is perfect for bright visual learners who want to learn Java as their first programming language and relatively inexperienced programmers looking to pick up Java as their second programming language.

Dr. Ernest J. Friedman-Hill graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1986, and earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. Since then, Dr. Friedman-Hill has been employed by Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. His work centers on the use of distributed computing and artificial intelligence in advanced manufacturing applications. Most of his projects over the last five years have used Java. Dr. Friedman-Hill is the author of "Jess," a widely used tool for artificial intelligence research. "Jess" is written entirely in Java. You can read about "Jess" on the World Wide Web at herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess. Dr. Friedman-Hill has been teaching Java programming since the spring of 1996. He has taught for the University of California Extension Schools at Berkeley and San Diego, and through his own consulting firm, Montezuma Software Works. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals as well as articles in "Dr. Dobb's Journal" and "Java Enterprise Developer."