Problem Solving with Data Structures Using Java : A Multimedia Approach

by Guzdial, Mark J.; Ericson, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780136060611
• ISBN10: 0136060617
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-05
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

KEY BENEFIT : This creative book uses contemporary media and simulations - trees and linked lists of images and music - to make data structures concepts more relatable for today's reader. KEY TOPICS : Objects for Modeling a World; Introduction to Java; Methods in Java: Manipulating Pictures; Objects as Agents: Manipulating Turtles; Arrays: A Static Data Structure for Sounds; Structuring Music using Linked Lists; Structuring Images using Linked Lists; Trees of Images; Lists and Trees for Structuring Sounds; Generalizing Lists and Trees; Abstract Data Types: Separating the Meaning from the Implementation; Circular Linked Lists and Graphs: Lists and Trees That Loop; User Interface Structure; Using an Existing Simulation Package; Introducing UML and Continuous Simulations; Abstracting Simulations: Creating a Simulation Package; Discrete Event Simulation. MARKET : This book is appropriate for anyone looking for an introductory text on data structures.

Author Biography

<>Barbara Ericson is a research scientist and the Director of Computing Outreach for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. She has been working on improving introductory computing education for over 5 years. She enjoys the diversity of the types of problems she has worked on over the years in computing including computer graphics, artificial intelligence, medicine, and object-oriented programming.

 

Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech.  An award-winning teacher and active researcher in computing education, he holds a joint Ph.D. In Education and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Dr. Guzdial directs Project “Georgia Computes!” which is an NSF funded alliance to improve computing education from pre-teen years to undergraduates.  He is a member of the ACM Education Board and is a frequent contributor to the ACM SIGCSE (Computer Science Education) Symposium.

 

Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial, are recipients of the 2010 Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award for their contributions to broadening participation in computing. They created the Media Computation (MediaComp) approach, which motivates students to write programs that manipulate and create digital media, such as pictures, sounds, and videos. Now in use in nearly 200 schools around the world, this contextualized approach to introductory Computer Science attracts students not motivated by classical algorithmic problems addressed in traditional computer science education. They also lead “Georgia Computes!” an NSF-funded statewide alliance to increase the number and diversity of students in computing education across all of Georgia.  Barbara Ericson directs the Institute for Computing Education at Georgia Tech. Mark Guzdial is director of the Contextualized Support for Learning at Georgia Tech.  Together they have written three textbooks using the MediaComp approach to engage and inspire student learning in computing. The Karlstrom Award recognizes educators who advanced new teaching methodologies; effected new curriculum development in Computer Science and Engineering; or contributed to ACM’s educational mission.

Table of Contents

Contents	p. iii
List of Program Examples	p. vii
List of Figures	p. xii
Introduction to Java: Object-Oriented Programming for Modeling a World	p. 5
Objects for Modeling a World.	p. 7
Making Representations of a World	p. 8
Why Java?	p. 15
Introduction to Java	p. 19
Whatrsquo;s Java about?	p. 19
Basic (Syntax) Rules of Java	p. 20
Using Java to Model the World	p. 28
Manipulating Pictures in Java	p. 40
Exploring Sound in Java	p. 45
Exploring Music in Java	p. 46
Methods in Java: Manipulating Pictures	p. 51
Reviewing Java Basics	p. 51
Java is about Classes and Methods	p. 56
Methods that return something: Compositing images	p. 63
Creating classes that do something	p. 73
Objects as Agents: Manipulating Turtles	p. 79
Turtles: An Early Computational Object	p. 79
Drawing with Turtles	p. 80
Creating animations with turtles and frames	p. 88
Arrays: A Static Data Structure for Sounds	p. 97
Manipulating Sampled Sounds	p. 97
Inserting and Deleting in an Array	p. 103
Introducing Linked Lists.	p. 109
Structuring Music using Linked Lists	p. 111
JMusic and Imports	p. 111
Starting out with JMusic	p. 115
Making a Simple Song Object	p. 116
Simple structuring of notes with an array	p. 119
Making the Song Something to Explore	p. 119
Making Any Song Something to Explore	p. 128
Exploring Music	p. 151
Structuring Images using Linked Lists	p. 169
Simple arrays of pictures	p. 170
Listing the Pictures, Left-to-Right	p. 170
Listing the Pictures, Layering	p. 176
Reversing a List	p. 185
Animation	p. 186
Lists with Two Kinds of Elements	p. 189
Trees: Hierarchical Structures for Media.	p. 207
Trees of Images	p. 209
Representing scenes with trees	p. 209
Our First Scene Graph: Attack of the Killer Wolvies hellip;.	p. 210
The Classes in the SceneGraph	p. 212
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