Introduction to Java Programming, AP Version with MyProgrammingLab with Pearson eText

by Liang, Y. Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780134304748
• ISBN10: 0134304748
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover w/ Access Code
• Copyright: 2016-01-05
• Publisher: Savvas Learning Company

Summary

KEY BENEFIT: Written for AP students, Introduction to Java Programming: AP Edition covers all Java programming material and concepts required as part of the AP Computer Science A curriculum. Daniel Liang teaches concepts of problem-solving and object-oriented programming using a fundamentals-first approach and effectively communicates critical problem-solving techniques to beginning programmers. The text focuses on problem solving through Java programming and emphasizes both imperative and object-oriented problem solving and design. It is divided into two parts: in the first, readers learn the fundamental concepts and techniques of selection statements, loops, methods, and arrays, before building on this foundation in the second part, as the text introduces concepts of object-oriented programming.

 

KEY TOPICS: Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Java; Elementary Programming; Selections; Mathematical Functions, Characters,  and Strings; Loops; Methods; Single-Dimensional Arrays; Multidimensional Arrays; Objects and Classes; Object-Oriented Thinking; Inheritance and Polymorphism; Exception Handling and Text I/O; Abstract Classes and Interfaces; Recursion

 

MARKET: For anyone interested in all Java programming material and concepts required as part of the AP Computer Science A curriculum.

 

Author Biography

Dr. Liang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Okalahoma in 1991, and an MS and BS in Computer Science from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 1986 and 1983. Prior to joining Armstrong, he was an associate professor in computer science at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, where he twice received the Excellence in Research award. 

Dr. Liang was trained in theoretical computer science. He was active in graph algorithms from 1990 to 1995 and published more than ten papers in several established journals such as SIAM Journal on Computing, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Acta Informatics, and Information Processing Letters. Since 1996, he has devoted to writing texts and published more than thirty books with Prentice Hall. His popular computer science texts are widely adopted in the world. 

Dr. Liang was elected a Java Champion in 2005 by Sun Microsystems. He has given lectures on Java internationally.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Java

2. Elementary Programming

3. Selections

4. Mathematical Functions, Characters,  and Strings

5. Loops

6. Methods

7. Single-Dimensional Arrays

8. Multidimensional Arrays

9. Objects and Classes

10. Object-Oriented Thinking

11. Inheritance and Polymorphism

12. Exception Handling and Text I/O

13. Abstract Classes and Interfaces

14. Recursion