Explore Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

Author: Tony Tang
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Java is currently the most popular object-oriented programming language. It offers powerful functionality, capable of both general cross-platform engineering development and internet applications, making it highly favored by programmers and learners. This book is divided into two parts structurally. Chapters 1-13 cover the fundamentals of the Java language, introducing its various elements step by step: variables, operators, conditional statements, loop statements, nested and recursive structures, references, arrays, structures, classes, and objects, among others. Chapters 14-20 focus on data structures, categorically introducing various commonly used data structures: linked lists, stacks, queues, priority queues, trees, heaps, hash maps, Huffman trees, and files. Additionally, the accompanying CD-ROM includes the Java programming language (Sun's J2SE 1.4.2 SDK and J2SE 1.5.0 Beta 2), the excellent programming environment BlueJ, NetBeans 3.6 for Windows, Eclipse SDK 3.0 RC2, and other resources. Readers of this book can range from true beginners to graduate, undergraduate, or vocational college students, as well as junior and intermediate users in enterprises and institutions. The most suitable readers are university or vocational college students from non-computer majors, as well as middle and primary school students who are enthusiasts of information technology. This book can serve as a textbook for computer courses in various schools or as a reference for learning computer programming.