Java Concepts for AP Computer Science

This book is in great condition, I use it for my computer class. Gives lots of information about Java programming just wish it gave more examples of writing programs.

This book arrived in a timely manner and in excellent, new condition. No scuffs or scratch anywhere from anything. Great buy! Thank you

This text is not designed to teach one to program in Java... its true purpose is to teach somebody who has *NEVER* programmed before (such as me) the basic concepts of Computer Programming, and happens to use Java 2 as the environment in which that is done.It does a very good job of that; concepts are introduced in a logical order, with plenty of examples. The use of provided classes delays the need to learn difficult concepts (i.e. the provided ConsoleReader handles keyboard input) until basic programming concepts are learned.

The 2nd edition of this book eliminates the homebrewed classes and adds coverage of graphics. What was a good introduction to programming book is now also a good java text.

For those people who said this book is bad, I don't think that they had read through the whole book and had tried the examples and the review exercise inside the book. If they had tried these examples and exercises, they would get much more than they thought. The most invaluable information of this textbook is in the exercise. These exercises are very practical. Try them and you will find that the book is focusing on the most important part of the Java language. Don't just scan for few chapters and give bad comments. This is unfair to the author!