Table of Contents

What This Book Is Programming The Mechanics Before You Start Objects. The Building Block A Word on Analysis and Design A First Look Programming (Don't Panic!) The Basics Input A Word on Testing A First Class Classes and Objects Get Your Hands Off My Data! Making Things Happen. Sometimes Making Things Happen. Again and Again More Methods Collections A Case Study More on Testing Onward! Further Reading, Web Sites and Other Resources Java Reference and Examples C++ and C# Glossary Index.

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TONY JENKINS is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. His main area of research lies in innovative approaches to the teaching of computing, and especially introductory programming. He has written and spoken widely on the best ways to teach programming, and was awarded an MSc by the University of Kent in 2002 for research on the best ways to go about teaching it. GRAHAM HARDMAN works as a Computer Support Officer in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. He is an experienced programmer in C, Java, Perl and Python.

About the Author

TONY JENKINS is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. His main area of research lies in innovative approaches to the teaching of computing, and especially introductory programming. He has written and spoken widely on the best ways to teach programming, and was awarded an MSc by the University of Kent in 2002 for research on the best ways to go about teaching it. GRAHAM HARDMAN works as a Computer Support Officer in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. He is an experienced programmer in C, Java, Perl and Python.