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Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects (3rd Edition)
written by Tony Gaddis
Studio : Addison Wesley
by Addison Wesley
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Released : 2007-01-27
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780321479273
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 7 reviews)
List Price : $103.00
Our Price : $67.11
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Product Description |
KEY BENEFIT: In Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects, Gaddis covers procedural programming—control structures and methods—before introducing objects in the latter part of the book. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter.
Introduction to Computers and Java; Java Fundamentals; Decision Structures; Loops and Files; Methods; A First Look at Classes; A First Look at GUI Applications; Arrays and the ArrayList Class; A Second Look at Classes and Objects; Text Processing and More about Wrapper Classes; Inheritance; Exceptions and Advanced File I/O; Advanced GUI Applications; Applets and More; Recursion.
For all readers interested in introductory programming. |
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Nice Explanations |
-I was forced to get this for my class, but surprisingly it's not as bad as I thought it would be
-Great explanations using examples and examples of code.
-It gives you projects to do
-Don't get if you're not taking a JAVA class...get a self guide rather than this school text book |
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Java is fun, or something... |
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The book is good, I still find it a hard subject matter, but programming is fun. It requires you to drink a ton of Java, and learn to really appreciate the time and effort it takes people to write this code. It is a good beginning book... |
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I could not rate this transaction..... |
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i never received the book.... it is over a month ago now and i have no book and no refund.....chances are i will continue to use ebay for my textbooks, atleast they arrive on time |
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Excellent book.No other book is like this.Go for it. |
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This book has pleased me a lot.I have 2 other books for Java which are waste and I never open then from the day I started reading this book.Tony Gaddis has explained every concept in detail.I am a beginner and this book is a very good choice for beginners.The examples in this book are explained so well with no errors which makes it even more good. I want to learn EJB also if his book is available. |
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If you teach Java, this is the text to use... but maybe not this edition! |
If you read the reviews of this text and its earlier editions, you'll see that it's nearly always praised by intro CS profs and students alike. Only this 3rd edition has gotten a real 'ding' by a reviewer, and that came more from that one individual's problem with Americancivilwar than any real fault found in Gaddis' text itself. The guy's anger is understandable, though, as the price of this thick *paperback* book is simply absurd - as is the case with so many college textbooks these days... especially those in subject areas considered the gateway to lucrative careers. How can the publishers possibly justify their pricing? They can't... it's mostly greed. They figure CS students will just borrow a ton of money for their education and then pay off their inflated loans with their huge salaries, later!
Anyway, end of rant. What I would suggest, though, is to consider using an earlier edition of Gaddis' text - used - if ninety plus bucks is too much for you. For the purpose of introductory programming in Java, very little is lost in using the first edition, "Starting Out with Java 5". As I write this in 2008, Java is 13 years old and has become a mature language; very few basic features or keywords are deprecated anymore, and all of the latest and greatest extensions are mostly beyond the introductory level of this textbook. What the first edition did well - build a firm foundation for understanding programming structures and object oriented features in basic Java - all editions still do extremely well. The second edition, and the third, however, are incremental improvements... not essential to getting one's students off on the right foot. |
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