Computing Fundamentals with Java

By Rick Mercer and Rick Mercer

Computing Fundamentals with Java is the current effort in the author's 11-year journey of integrating object- oriented programming into the first computer science course, while retaining the commonly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887902473
• ISBN13: 9781887902472
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Franklin Beedle & Associates
• Length: 697 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

slightly dated version of java

Written in 2002, Mercer's book teaches Java from scratch. A well done pedagogy. That gets across the ideas in object oriented programming, as well as specific fluency in Java. The general purpose lessons and ideas in OO are timeless. And largely transportable to any other OO language like C# or C++. The text also has a short history of how OO programming arose. Showing the earlier structured or procedural programming approach, as exemplified by Fortran or Pascal. The coding examples are also a good introduction to writing graphical programs. Where the code often waits for user commands. With the associated ideas of registering callbacks (called listeners in Java) and of simple multithreading. The biggest problem is that the Java is somewhat dated. Java has been through 2 major revisions since 2002. However, those tended to expand the set of classes in the standard distribution. Newer Javas are a superset of the Java treated in the book.