Guide to Java: A Concise Introduction to Programming [2014] [PDF]

Title: Guide to Java: A Concise Introduction to Programming
Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Authors: James T. Streib, Takako Soma
Format: PDF
Hardcover: 358 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2014 edition (March 10, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781447163169

This book presents a focused and accessible primer on the fundamentals of Java programming, with extensive use of examples and hands-on exercises. Topics and features: provides an introduction to variables, input/output and arithmetic operations; describes objects and contour diagrams, explains selection structures, and demonstrates how iteration structures work; discusses object-oriented concepts such as overloading and classes methods, and introduces string variables and processing; illustrates arrays and array processing and examines recursion; explores inheritance and polymorphism and investigates elementary files; presents a primer on graphical input/output, discusses elementary exception processing, and presents the basics of Javadoc; includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with selected answers in an appendix and a glossary of key terms; provides additional supplementary information at an associated website.