How To Think Like A Programmer: Problem Solving For The Bewildered

Description

How to Think Like a Programmer is a bright, accessible, fun read describing the mindset and mental methods of programmers. Anticipating the problems that students have through the character of Brian the Bewildered Wildebeest, the slower pace required for this approach is made interesting and engaging by hand-drawn sketches, frequent (paper-based) activities and the everyday tasks (e.g. coffee making) used as a basis of worked examples.

How to Think Like a Programmer provides a fun and accessible way to learn the mental models needed to approach computational programmable problems.

CONTENTS:

PART ONE: Creating and Using Java Classes

1. Introduction

2. Creating Classes

3. Developing Class Methods

PART TWO: Methods and Statements

4. Input and Formatting Class Methods

5. Selection

6. Repetition

PART THREE: Reference and Collection Datatypes

7. Strings and Characters

8. Collections: Arrays

PART FOUR: Creating Swing-Based GUIs

9. Visual Programming Basics

10. Additional Class Capabilities

PART FIVE: Additional Programming Topics

11. Additional Class Capabilities

12. Files

13. Collections: List Creating and Maintenance

14. Additional Capabilities

APPENDICES

Appendix A: Operator Precedence Table

Appendix B: Unicode Character Set

Appendix C: Compiliing and Running a Java Program

Appendix D: Obtaining Locales