How To Think Like A Programmer

by Vickers, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781844809004
• ISBN10: 1844809005
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-21
• Publisher: CENGAGE Lrng Business Press

Summary

How to Think Like a Programmer is a bright, accessible, fun read describing the mindset and mental methods of programmers. Anticipating the problems that students have through the character of Brian the Bewildered Wildebeest, the slower pace required for this approach is made interesting and engaging by hand-drawn sketches, frequent (paper-based) activities and the everyday tasks (e.g. coffee making) used as a basis of worked examples. How to Think Like a Programmer provides a fun and accessible way to learn the mental models needed to approach computational programmable problems.

Table of Contents

Creating and Using Java Classes

Introduction

Creating Classes

Developing Class Methods

Methods and Statements

Input and Formatting Class Methods

Selection

Repetition

Reference and Collection Datatypes

Strings and Characters

Collections: Arrays

Creating Swing-Based GUIs

Visual Programming Basics

Additional Class Capabilities

Additional Programming Topics

Additional Class Capabilities

Files

Collections: List Creating and Maintenance

Additional Capabilities

Appendices

Operator Precedence Table

Unicode Character Set

Compiliing and Running a Java Program

Obtaining Locales

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