Starting Out with Java 5: Control Structures to Objects

by Tony Gaddis

Book Overview

This text is designed as a "late objects" introduction to programming using the Java programming language. This text first introduces the reader to the fundamentals of data types, input and output,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576761711
• ISBN13: 9781576761717
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 1004 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Book to learn Java 5

It's a great book for starters. Will give you a very good introduction to the Java language . If you are a C++ programmer you can start programming in Java in weeks . This book however does not have any topics on Data Structures.Once you get a head start on Java get a different book on Data Structures with Java.

Good for Comp. Sci. class

I bought this book for my introductory computer science class. It's a great book, because it gives nice programming examples and makes the material very easy to understand. Upon reading a couple chapters I began to understand more programming than I have with previous books. I would recommend this book for anybody who is beginning out with programming in the java computer language, or anybody who just wants to learn how to program.

Fantastic book

I've been thinking about improvements for Starting Out With Java after teaching out it, and, to be honest, have come up with very little. We're in our third term using the book and the experience has been overwhelmingly positive for me and for the students. I'm looking forward to the new "kitchen sink" edition in the hope we'll be able to use it for both our first and second Java courses. This book has (and will continue to be, I'm sure) a great help to us is getting the students started "right". Our thanks to you guys and to Tony for making it available! -Peter H.Van Der Goes Rose State College I have taught Java for about eight years and have probably used a different textbook each term that I've taught the course. I have to say that the Gaddis book is the best one that I've used. The first chapter on GUI applications is well done. By this time the students are ready for something besides a console application. Most of my students come directly out of Visual Basic so the GUI app is for many of them their only perspective on a computer program. Getting into a GUI sooner than later seems like a good choice to me. By the time my students have finished the decision structure chapter, they have had at least three assignments in which they must create their own class. By introducing GUI apps next, I can have them code a windows-type program that makes use of a class that they have created in a previous assignment. There is s one nice synergy in that type of relationship. -Merrill Parker Chattaonooga State Technical Community College After teaching out of Gaddis' Java book, I recommend not changing much. By the first test, we had covered the first 5 chapters. It is the first time I can recall that everyone in my class passed the first test! Do not change the order of topics in the first 6 chapters. These work beautifully. -Diane Christie University of Wisconsin Stout Gaddis' Java book is well written for the average student and with good examples for a student interested to get command on language. The chapter exercises, multiple choices, review questions are impressive. -Dr. Y. B. Reddy, Grambling State University Teaching out of Gaddis' Java text, I have generally taken the topics in the order they are given in the book, and let the students use the book to refresh their memory or look at the material stated in a different fashion from the way I did. I took a quick snap poll, and most of the students also feel very positively about the book. A number of features that have impressed me with Gaddis: -The general organization of topics. It follows a logical order, easy to work through, one subject leading to the next. -The general layout is good, with the chapter introduction and list of topics at the beginning of each chapter. The colored thumb guides at the side of the book can be useful, although I haven't used them much myself- probably mostly due to my not being used to having them there. -The code listings are clear and eas