Overview
- Contains numerous programming exercises and a final 2 hour test exam
- The material in the book has been used and tested with students
- Additional material including source codes and slides for each chapter are available on an accompanying website
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Started
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Front Matter
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Data-Structures & Algorithms
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Front Matter
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Part II. Data-Structures & Algorithms
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Exam Review
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Front Matter
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Part III. Exam Review
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Back Matter
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About this book
A Concise and Practical Introduction to Programming Algorithms in Java has two main goals. The first is for novice programmers to learn progressively the basic concepts underlying most imperative programming languages using Java. The second goal is to introduce new programmers to the very basic principles of thinking the algorithmic way and turning the algorithms into programs using the programming concepts of Java.
The book is divided into two parts and includes: The fundamental notions of variables, expressions and assignments with type checking - Conditional and loop statements - Explanation of the concepts of functions with pass-by-value arguments and recursion - Fundamental sequential and bisection search techniques - Basic iterative and recursive sorting algorithms.
Each chapter of the book concludes with a set of exercises to enable students to practice concepts covered.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This is an excellent book. … The author takes an interesting and entirely appropriate approach to Java … . the book is designed primarily as a textbook for class use, a programmer experienced in another procedural or object-oriented language, who would like to get started with Java, could also use it. The examples and exercises are definitely a lot more interesting than those found in most books aimed at professionals … . I like this book and I recommend it." (Edgar R. Chavez, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2009)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Concise and Practical Introduction to Programming Algorithms in Java
Authors: Frank Nielsen
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-339-6
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84882-338-9Published: 23 April 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84882-339-6Published: 05 April 2009
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 252
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Data Structures
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