Java Programming

by Joyce Farrell

Give your beginning programmers a thorough, engaging and hands-on introduction to developing applications with Farrell's JAVA PROGRAMMING, 7E. This complete guide provides the details and real-world exercises today's readers need to master Java, one of the most widely used tool among professional programmers for building visually interesting GUI and Web-based applications. With JAVA PROGRAMMING, 7E even first-time programmers can quickly develop useful programs while learning the basic principles of structured and object-oriented programming. The text explains concepts clearly and reinforces the reader-friendly presentation with meaningful real-world exercises. Full programming examples emphasize learning in context. Updated ""You Do It"" sections, all-new programming exercises, and new continuing cases help students build skills critical for ongoing programming success.Important Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Genres: Reference, Computers, Textbooks, Computer Science, Technical, Programming

1084 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Joyce Farrell was formerly a Professor of Computer Information Systems at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois. Prior to joining Harper College, Farrell taught Computer Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois. She is the author of many Programming books for Course Technology, a part of Cengage Learning[1]. Her books are widely used as textbooks in higher education institutions.

"When I write my books I use the same language, examples, analogies, and entertaining exercises that made my class sessions fun and made the lessons stick. I was always thrilled when former students would return for a visit and tell me how they were able to solve problems at their new jobs when others were stumped because of the thorough programming backgrounds they got in my courses." -Joyce Farrell

Reviews

[Daniil · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good for beginners who don't know anything at all about programming.
Those who have at least 2 years of programming experience, might not be very interested in this book since it covers basics only.

[Hamza Mohammad Khan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for beginners, intermediate developers if they want to review their java, but I would like to add a bit more details sometimes in chapters unrelated stuff comes up and a lot of times become convoluted. The great thing is a lot of exercises ( but need solutions a lot of times too some questions become a headache to solve also because the author is using graphics to print output from the start not console ).
I would recommend but these are some points I would like to highlight

[Brendan · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a horribly convoluted and badly written book! The activities at the end of the chapter are so unbelievably stupid! It has things such as:

Just below the newly entered declaration for oneSite, add an integer declaration as follows:

int siteNum;

and "Between the curly braces, type: ..."

It makes it so hard to read. Just show the code!

[Kristina]

I am sure there are much better Java books than this one out there. I was not impressed, but did learn quite a bit.

[Hadeel Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent book to get deep in java