Java Programming by Joyce Farrell

by Joyce Farrell

JAVA PROGRAMMING, Sixth Edition provides the beginning programmer with a guide to developing applications using the Java programming language. Java is popular among professional programmers because it can be used to build visually interesting GUI and Web-based applications. Java also provides an excellent environment for the beginning programmer - students can quickly build useful programs while learning the basics of structured and object-oriented programming techniques.

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

Paperback

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]

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]

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]

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]

excellent book to get deep in java