Objects First with Java A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ

Name: Objects First with Java A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ
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ISBN: 9780131976290

ISBN-10: 013197629X

ISBN-13: 9780131976290

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: David J. Barnes, Michael Kolling

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The book has a very clear identity.It takes a truly objects first approach to teaching problem solving using Java. These are complicated concepts so the book uses the development environment BlueJ to help the student & #146;s understanding. BlueJ has a strong emphasis on visualization and interaction techniques, and allows the students to manipulate objects and call methods as a first exercise. BlueJ is free and freely available, and has been developed specifically for teaching.The book is loaded with projects so that the student can really get a grip on actually solving problems; and it takes a & #147;spiral approach & #148;, introducing a topic in a simple context early on, then…

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List price: $86.25
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 520
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

David Barnes is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England. He has been teaching introductory programming for over 25 years, and has practical experience of a wide range of programming languages. He has been teaching object-oriented programming in Java for over 10 years. David is passionate about the excitement that is inherent in computer science and is actively involved in promoting it as a subject area to high-school children. In addition to computing education, his main research is in the area of software engineering.Michael Kï¿½lling is a Senior Lecturer at the Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, in Canterbury, England. He holds a PhD in…



Contents


Foreword


Preface to the instructor


List of projects discussed in detail in this book


Acknowledgements


Foundations of object orientation


Objects and classes


Objects and classes


Creating objects


Calling methods


Parameters


Data types


Multiple instances


State


What is in an object?


Object interaction


Source code


Another example


Return values


Objects as parameters


Summary


Understanding class definitions


Ticket machines


Exploring the behavior of a naive ticket machine


Examining a class definition


Fields, constructors, and methods


Fields


Constructors


Passing data via parameters


Assignment


Accessor methods


Mutator methods


Printing from methods


Summary of the naive ticket machine


Reflecting on the design of the ticket machine


Making choices: the conditional statement


A further conditional-statement example


Local variables


Fields, parameters, and local variables


Summary of the better ticket machine


Self-review exercises


Reviewing a familiar example


Summary


Object interaction


The clock example


Abstraction and modularization


Abstraction in software


Modularization in the clock example


Implementing the clock display


Class diagrams versus object diagrams


Primitive types and object types


The ClockDisplay source code


Class NumberDisplay


String concatenation


The modulo operator


Class ClockDisplay


Objects creating objects


Multiple constructors


Method calls


Internal method calls


External method calls


Summary of the clock display


Another example of object interaction


The mail system example


The this keyword


Using a debugger


Setting breakpoints


Single stepping


Stepping into methods


Method calling revisited


Summary


Grouping objects


Grouping objects in flexible-size collections


A personal notebook


A first look at library classes


An example of using a library


Object structures with collections


Generic classes


Numbering within collections


Removing an item from a collection


Processing a whole collection


The for-each loop


The while loop


Iterating over a collection


Index access versus iterators


Summary of the notebook example


Another example: an auction system


The Lot class


The Auction class


Anonymous objects


Using collections


Flexible collection summary


Fixed-size collections


A log-file analyzer


Declaring array variables


Creating array objects


Using array objects


Analyzing the log file


The for loop


Summary


More sophisticated behavior


Documentation for library classes


The TechSupport system


Exploring the TechSupport system


Reading the code


Reading class documentation


Interfaces versus imple