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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9780132222518 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0132222515 Label: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 687 Publication Date: 2006-04 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Editorial Review: Product Description: This book teaches beginners how to create well-designed software using Java and prepares them for both the A and AB advanced placement tests in Java. With a focus on object-oriented programming, teaching objects first and then writing classes, the authors identify the material, within an introduction to Java and a case study, that will be featured on the AP tests. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Simply a terrible bookI was asked to teach an AP CS course and thought this looked like the safest bet - the kids hated it! It is clearly a hacked down version of the authors other Java books. Explanations are not clear and the book simply could not have been written in a less engaging manner. I will not use this book again and will avoid titles from this publisher. Rating:  - This is a good well written bookI am basically a math teacher with a lot of bright computer science students. Of all of the books currently available in Java for AP Computer Science, this was the hands down winner with the kids, especially amongst the one semester students who were taking the A test. Rating:  - Not a good book for High School studentsThis is a hastily done book, since AP Comp Sci just switched to Java, which in itself was a bad decision ( I should take that up with CEEB) For example, before talking about variable scopes, it starts using the idiom - for ( int start=1; start <= MAXLINES; start++ ) { .... }- which in my opinion is bad for a beginner high school student.One can really get into trouble if one doesn't know what one is doing, especailly for high school students. One student that I know, spent all night working ... Read More Rating: - Written by a robot?This book should be called Java Software Solutions for a Complete Idiot. This is, for example, how they introduce some of the OOP concepts (p. 58): "A data type defines a set of values and operations -- what we can do with those values"... [a type does not define a set of values!] ... "An object is defined by a class, which is like the data type of the object." ... "Once a class has been defined, objects can be created from that class." ... "Classes can be created from other classes using inheritance. ... Read More |
