Essential Java for AP CompSci: From Programming to Computer Science
- Length: 346 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Apress
- Publication Date: 2021-09-04
- ISBN-10: 1484261828
- ISBN-13: 9781484261828
- Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)
Gain the essential skills for computer science using one of today’s most popular programming languages, Java. This book will prepare you for AP CompSci Complete, but you don’t need to be sitting that class to benefit. Computer science has become a basic life skill that everyone is going to need to learn. Whether you are going into a career or side hustle in business, technology, creativity, architecture, or almost any other field, you will find coding and computer science play a role.
So when we learn programming we are going to focus on three things: what is the process; what is the syntax; and what is the flow. The process is represented as a flowchart. We will learn how to make these to help you plan out what you are going to do before you write a line of code. At first, the flowcharts will be pretty simple, but then they will get more complex. The syntax is the code: this is what you write that translates the process you create in a flowchart to the instructions that the computer can understand. Finally, there is the flow. This is where you trace through the code and see how the data and information it stores along the way changes. You can see how the operation of the program cascades from line to line. You will be building charts that will capture the programming flow so you can better understand how the computer processes code to make your next program easier to conceive and code.
Along the way to aid in the learning of the essential Java skills, there will be three kinds of project types throughout this book: business software projects for applications where you work for a company and need to complete an internal project for a team such as the sales, marketing, or data science teams; social good projects where you are working for non-profits or for agencies that are trying to research and provide solutions to economic, environmental, medical, or humanitarian projects; and game development projects for games based on player input, random chance, or other mechanics for the use of entertainment.
What is unique about computer science is how it has become a skill, and not just a career. While there are jobs and titles of “computer scientist”, the skill of computer science, and specifically programming, are almost everywhere. After reading and using this book, you’ll have the essential skills to think like a computer scientist, even if you are not. As a result you’ll be of greater value to your clients, your company, and yourself.
What You Will Learn
- Discover the primary building blocks of programming using the Java programming language
- See terminology and best practices of software development
- Work with object-oriented programming concepts
- Use common-language definitions and examples to help drive understanding and comprehension of computer science fundamentals
Who This Book Is For
Those who want to learn programming and want to think like a computer scientist. Ideal for anyone taking AP CompSci Complete.
Cover Front Matter 1. Introduction 2. Setting Up the Java JDK and IntelliJ 3. Setting Up GitHub 4. Programming Languages 5. History and Uses of Java 6. How Java Works 7. Flowcharting 8. Hello, World 9. Simple Java Program Structure 10. Text Literals and Output 11. Value Literals 12. Output Formatting 13. Comments and Whitespace 14. Abstraction of Numbers 15. Binary 16. Unicode 17. Variables 18. Math! 19. Math Methods 20. Managing Type 21. Random Numbers 22. Capture Input 23. Creating Trace Tables 24. Methods 25. Calling Methods Within Methods 26. Methods and Values 27. Methods and Scope 28. Boolean Values and Equality 29. Simple Conditional Statements 30. Matching Conditions with the switch Statement 31. The Ternary Operator 32. The Stack and the Heap 33. Testing Equality with Strings 34. Dealing with Errors 35. Documenting with JavaDoc 36. Formatted Strings 37. The while Loop 38. Automatic Program Loops 39. The do/while Loop 40. Simplified Assignment Operators 41. The for Loop 42. Nesting Loops 43. Strings as Collections 44. Make Collections Using Arrays 45. Creating Arrays from Strings 46. Multidimensional Arrays 47. Looping Through Multidimensional Arrays 48. Beyond Arrays with ArrayLists 49. Introducing Generics 50. Looping with ArrayLists 51. Using for…each Loops 52. The Role-Playing Game Character 53. Polymorphism 54. Make All the Things…Classes 55. Class, Extend Thyself! 56. I Don’t Collect Those; Too Abstract 57. Access Denied: Protected and Private 58. Interfacing with Interfaces 59. All I’m Getting Is Static 60. An All-Star Cast, Featuring Null Back Matter
Donate to keep this site alive
How to download source code?
1. Go to: https://github.com/Apress
2. In the Find a repository… box, search the book title: Essential Java for AP CompSci: From Programming to Computer Science
, sometime you may not get the results, please search the main title.
3. Click the book title in the search results.
3. Click Code to download.
1. Disable the AdBlock plugin. Otherwise, you may not get any links.
2. Solve the CAPTCHA.
3. Click download link.
4. Lead to download server to download.