| | |  | Software Engineering | Home » » » Multimedia Introduction to Programming Using Java | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This book anchors its pedagogy in the program ProgramLive that you may find at extras.springer.com, a complete multimedia module in itself. Containing over 250 recorded lectures with synchronized animation, ProgramLive allows users to see, first-hand and in real time, processes like stepwise refinement of algorithms, development of loops, execution of method calls and associated changes to the call stack, and much more. The zip file also includes all programs from the book, 35 guided instruction sets for closed lab sessions, and a 70-page hyperlinked glossary. With its comprehensive appendices and bibliography, systematic approach, and helpful interactive programs on extras.springer.com, this exciting work provides the key tools they needed for successful object-oriented programming. It is ideal for use at the undergraduate and graduate beginning level, whether in the classroom or for distance learning; furthermore, the text will also be a valuable self-study resource or reference volume in any programmer’s library. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| David Gries | | Paperback:
| 554 pages | | Publisher:
| Springer | | Publication Date:
| September 09, 2004 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0387226818 | | Product Length:
| 0.92 inches | | Product Width:
| 0.71 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.1 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
Average Customer Review:
 ( 5 customer reviews )
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Publishing errorSep 14, 2010
By Mathew Boban
"vladsinger"
Note for the public:
Springer, the publisher, has failed to include the CD in some of the new printed copies. This is a known issue. Considering that the other reviewers consider the CD the key benefit of this book, this is a serious error.
You may be able to get a replacement software download from the publisher.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Very GoodMar 15, 2006
By Michael
One of the authors of this book, David Gries, is my Computer Science teacher and hearing his voice (and that of his son Paul) on the multimedia CD is a weird experience, but extremely helpful. I can't stand just reading textbooks, and the multimedia CD allows me to have an interactive learning experience and not just stare at pages. The book is great as well but the learning CD is really what stands out. There are videos, exercises, sample programs, labs, you name it. Very easy to learn Java with it.
Bad AnalogyApr 11, 2012
By A Human Being
To anyone taking Java at Cornell, PLEASE READ THIS. Professor Gries tries to use an analogy to explain objects and classes based on folders (objects) in a file drawer (classes). This is OK for some aspects of OOP, but he takes it way too far. An object is NOT, I repeat, NOT a variable in the sense you are used to from Matlab or a variable containing a primitive type. An object is a POINTER, a pointer a pointer a pointer. If he would just say this, it'd save everyone a tremendous amount of frustration. If you don't know what a pointer is, look it up on Wikipedia or something.
The basic idea though, is a pointer is a variable that contains the memory address (points) to another variable. So, an object contains the memory address of an allocated block up memory set up according to a template called the class. When you make a new object, you allocate a block of memory for the stuff an instance of the class must contain AND assign the memory address to access this block to a variable, which is the name of the object. You can have multiple pointers pointing to the same memory address and thus both changing the same memory address.
I'm not a CS major, so there may be some minor inaccuracies in what I've said, but for non-computer related engineers required to take transition to Java or similar, this should be fine. I hope this helps some people.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 interested CD with recorded presentationsJul 18, 2005
By W Boudville
The multimedia CD is clearly the most distinctive aspect of the book. I found the recorded presentations to be quite interesting and these can be helpful to the Java beginner. They would specifically be useful to a reader who learns best from a live teacher than from text. But who, for whatever reason, lacks that teacher.
The text of the book is competently done. With Springer's usual technically accurate content. Though I can't say that the text is necessarily distinctive or better than other pre-existing texts on Java.
On a passing note, the CD's content must have been quite expensive to produce. Given that Springer's texts tend to be fairly small circulation, one might wonder if they will ever recoup the cost of development.
2 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Read this book and still have no idea how to programApr 27, 2011
By student1337
This book might as well be 500 pages of random words lined up together. It makes no sense at all, and without following step by step on the computer you will gain nothing. If you have to do all this, what is the point of the book? Hated it.
| | |
|
