Java Programming

by Joyce Farrell

Discover the power of Java(TM) for developing applications today when you trust the engaging, hands-on approach in Farrell's JAVA PROGRAMMING, 9E. Even if you're a first-time programmer, JAVA PROGRAMMING can show you how to quickly start developing useful programs, all while still mastering the basic principles of structured and object-oriented programming. Unique, reader-friendly explanations and meaningful programming exercises emphasize business applications and game creation while useful debugging exercises and contemporary case problems further expand your understanding. Additional digital learning resources within MindTap provide interactive learning tools as well as coding IDE (Integrated Development Environment) labs for practicing and expanding your skills.

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

1024 pages, 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 · 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