Java How to Program: Late Objects Version (8th Edition) [Paperback]

Paul Deitel (Author)

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Publication Date: July 26, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0136123716 | ISBN-13: 978-0136123712 | Edition: 8

The Deitels’ groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of object-oriented programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. This survey of Java programming contains an optional extensive OOD/UML 2 case study on developing and implementing the software for an automated teller machine. The Eighth Edition of this acclaimed text is now current with the Java SE 6 updates that have occurred since the book was last published.

The Late Objects Version delays coverage of class development until Chapter 8, presenting the control structures, methods and arrays material in a non-object-oriented, procedural programming context.

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Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. He holds the Java Certified Programmer and Java Certified Developer certifications, and has been designated by Sun Microsystems as a Java Champion. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++, C# and Visual Basic courses to industry clients, including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Lucent Technologies, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Stratus, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He has also lectured on Java and C++ for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 45 years of academic and industry experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the MIT and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He and Paul are the co-authors of several dozen books and multimedia packages and they are writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and Turkish, the Deitels’ texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of professional seminars to major corporations, academic institutions, government organizations and the military.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1184 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (July 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136123716
• ISBN-13: 978-0136123712
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars unique emphasis on first teaching procedural aspects of Java, July 28, 2009

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This review is from: Java How to Program: Late Objects Version (8th Edition) (Paperback)

I have read and reviewed many books on Java, but this one by the Deitels has a somewhat uniquely different take. You may already know that Java is a fully object oriented language, unlike C++, which was bolted onto C. The latter is a procedural language and for C++ for be backward compatible (ie. run C code), it could not be strictly object oriented. And long and sometimes bitter experiences with the limitations of procedural languages led to the development of OO languages. One consequence is that most books on Java leap directly into OO. Procedural is like a dirty word. But the main concepts in OO are harder to grasp than those of simpler procedural languages. What the Deitels have done is identify a gap in the teaching of Java. There is presumably a need to cater to those readers who might already know a procedural language (Fortran, Cobol, C, Pascal ...) and who might not be ready to jump into learning OO. Or maybe the reader does not know any programming language and wants to slowly get into Java.

So here's the book's strength. The first 6 chapters are a pure procedural pedagogy. If you are an instructor, you can teach these as a good, fairly self contained introduction to Java. This is done through example code that just uses the static main() in one java class. It sidesteps completely the need to define subroutines or methods until chapter 5. Even there, the use of methods captures the flavour of subroutines in Fortran or C.

To be sure, the other 19 chapters of the book then go onto expose the full OO aspects of Java. The exposition is well done. Covering polymorphism, interfaces, GUI design, graphics, strings, etc.

The entire book also follows the Deitel preference for providing complete program code instead of code snippets. The latter are more typical of other texts. The intent here is to position the book towards novice programmers who could regard code snippets as daunting. Yeah, if you are an experienced programmer, this may seem ridiculous, but then you don't need this book anyway.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Java book!, September 18, 2009

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Donald Hsu (NYC, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Java How to Program: Late Objects Version (8th Edition) (Paperback)

Dr. Deitel did it again, 31 chapters, A thru Q appendix, 1131 pages, good for two semester of any Java course.

If you are an experience C++ or C programmer, it is easy. You would like the case study and exercises.

But if you never did programming, this book is excellent. Chapter 14 and 15 have plenty of GUI examples. You learn, modify and create your own GUIs, fantastic! Chap. 24 got many applets and multimedia examples.

The enclosed CD-ROM is easy to install. The book website allows you to download examples.

Learning Java is fun. This is the only way, that our students will benefit. As a professor taught Java and Advanced Java for 10 year, I highly recommend this book.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indepth and detailed, October 1, 2010

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This review is from: Java How to Program: Late Objects Version (8th Edition) (Paperback)

Love this book. It not only covers the span of the language , but also reinforces programming discipline. The examples and exercises are challenging and stimulating.