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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN num: 9780130335203
ISBN number: 0130335207
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 704
Printing Date: October 19, 2003
Publishing house: Prentice Hall
Sale Popularity Level: 141071
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Presenting Java details on a need to know basis, this concise introduction to Java develops and executes practical examples useful for solving problems in an engineering environment. KEY TOPICS Focused on the proper way to write reliable Java programs, it outlines excellent software development practices; uses a top-down design technique to break the program up into logical portions; and demonstrates object re-usability by building later examples on the classes and methods created in earlier examples. The book also includes a number of supporting classes to make it easier for engineers to format numbers in Java, to display data in linear or logarithmic plots, to work with complex numbers, to manipulate arrays, and to perform such common engineering calculations as FFTs, convolutions, correlations, etc. Engineering and Science professionals.
Amazon.com Review:
Aimed at the engineering student or scientifically inclined reader, Stephen Chapman's Java for Engineers and Scientists provides a remarkably useful and thorough introduction to Java for anyone who isn't afraid of math.
One of the best things about this textbook-style guide is probably its many example problems and exercises drawn from engineering, mathematics, physics, and statistics. The author uses simple examples (and algorithms) to illustrate basic Java programming techniques, all told in a patient, thorough, and extremely comprehensible teaching style. To simplify things, the author includes his own custom classes at certain points for getting you over some missing or hard-to-code features of Java. (These classes include simple I/O classes, graphics classes for plotting data, and a complex number class.) The book certainly does not try to cover every Java feature, but it does cover the Java core API very well, along with Swing GUI basics.
This book excels at mathematical processing in Java, with clear explanations of numeric data types, arrays, and complex numbers. It also is very careful to suggest good programming practice from basic design techniques and hints for creating maintainable code (such as correct naming and documentation).
There is certainly no shortage of introductory texts for Java. Java for Engineers and Scientists distinguishes itself with not only a lucid style of presentation that perhaps belies its title, but also with its thorough range of examples, most of which will be accessible to anyone with a grasp of high school math or physics. For engineering students or for self-study for those with just a little math knowledge, this title turns out to be one of the best available guides to learning Java. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Java fundamentals, naming, variables and data types, assignment and mathematical methods, top-down program design, flow control, arrays, graphics and plotting, object-oriented programming basics, inheritance and polymorphism, exceptions, complex numbers, strings, graphics, Swing basics, and file I/O.
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I bought this book for a programming class. I'm experienced in c++ but wanted to learn Java. This was a great book for learning Java as a second language, but I feel that it is basic enough for the beginning programmer as well.
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Great book. Good content. Clear style. Excellent introduction to programming in Java. Wide variety of topics covered in a modest amount of pages.
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This book begins by showing how to implement procedural algorithms in Java. The early examples are short and understandable by those familiar with C or fortran. The commenting style is clean and concise.
I have found the object-oriented portions to also be very helpful and I plan to spend more time with these sections. At very first glance the emphasis seems to be on plotting data. A medium-sized scientific simulation example incorporating multiple related classes would be a great way to illustrate the design and programming suggestions made by the author.
I was UNABLE to acess the book's web site (www.prenhall.com/author_chapman/) or find any links to the plotting package.
Overall, this was a great book for where I am on the learning curve. I would like to see how it all comes together for a more complex physical simulation.
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While the title of this book promises to teach Java, instead it mostly teaches the reader how to use specialzed bits of code that the author wrote himself. The reason I bought the book was to learn JAVA, so I could write my own code. I suppose this book would be good for people who want to be able to write Java programs without learning how Java actually works.
Rated by buyers -
While the title of this book promises to teach Java, instead it mostly teaches the reader how to use specialzed bits of code that the author wrote himself. The reason I bought the book was to learn JAVA, so I could write my own code. I suppose this book would be good for people who want to be able to write Java programs without learning Java.
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