(WCS) Computing Concepts w/Java Essentials: Advnced Placement Study Guide

by Cay S. Horstmann

Book Overview

This unique book teaches you the fundamental concepts of good computer programming while introducing you to one of the most powerful languages in use today-Java! It gives you an ideal balance between... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471449393
• ISBN13: 9780471449393
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 1.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I'm baffled by some of the criticism in the other reviews for this book. This book is not only extremely well organized, but is written at an appropriate level for students who are learning how to program. The code is available to users and seems to compile just fine with various compilers. I may have a second printing, but there are very few errors. Also, the applets chapter can be skipped if that isn't your cup of tea. Have a look at this book yourself. Students and instructors alike have been please with it here.

Pitched right as an introductory text

In browsing through many Java books in search of a potential text for an introductory class, I felt this one was pitched at the right level (and ended up reading it in its entirety). It will not teach you all of the considerable facilities that Java 2 offers, but I don't think that is its intent. It will serve well students with no prior programming experience. I was particularly impressed by the care put into the exercises.

Excellent!!

This text is not designed to teach one to program in Java... its true purpose is to teach somebody who has *NEVER* programmed before (such as me) the basic concepts of Computer Programming, and happens to use Java 2 as the environment in which that is done.It does a very good job of that; concepts are introduced in a logical order, with plenty of examples. The use of provided classes delays the need to learn difficult concepts (i.e. the provided ConsoleReader handles keyboard input) until basic programming concepts are learned.

New edition covers real Java

The 2nd edition of this book eliminates the homebrewed classes and adds coverage of graphics. What was a good introduction to programming book is now also a good java text.

Don't miss this great book if You are new to Java

For those people who said this book is bad, I don't think that they had read through the whole book and had tried the examples and the review exercise inside the book. If they had tried these examples and exercises, they would get much more than they thought. The most invaluable information of this textbook is in the exercise. These exercises are very practical. Try them and you will find that the book is focusing on the most important part of the Java language. Don't just scan for few chapters and give bad comments. This is unfair to the author!