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Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Fifth Edition by Allen B. Downey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Fifth Edition about?

This is the fifth edition of a book I started writing in 1999, when I was teaching at Colby College. I had taught an introductory computer science class using the Java programming language, but I had not found a textbook I was happy with.For one thing, they were all too big! There was no way my students would read 800 pages of dense, technical material, even if I wanted them to. And I didn’t want them to. Most of the material was too specific—details about Java and its libraries that would be obsolete by the end of the semester, and that obscured the material I really wanted to get to.The other problem I found was that the introduction to object oriented programming was too abrupt. Many students who were otherwise doing well just hit a wall when we got to objects, whether we did it at the beginning, middle or end.So I started writing. I wrote a chapter a day for 13 days, and on the 14th day I edited. Then I sent it to be photocopied and bound. When I handed it out on the first day of class, I told the students that they would be expected to read one chapter a week. In other words, they would read it seven times slower than I wrote it.

Who reads Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Fifth Edition?

Author

Allen B. Downey

Publisher

Allen B. Downey

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Programming, Stem