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Absolute Java: International Edition Paperback – 25 June 2009

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For undergraduate students in Computer Science and Computer Programming courses.

Praised for providing an engaging balance of thoughtful examples and explanatory discussion, Absolute Java™, Fourth Edition has been updated with numerous additional programming projects and coverage of web and database programming. Best-selling author Walt Savitch and contributor Kenrick Mock explain concepts and techniques in a straightforward style using understandable language and code enhanced by a suite of pedagogical tools. This edition also includes an extensive set of VideoNotes. Absolute Java is appropriate for both introductory and intermediate programming courses introducing Java.

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    25 June 2009
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    23 x 4 x 18.9 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0131365894
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Walter Savitch is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of California at San Diego. He received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1969. Since that time he has been on the faculty of the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He served as director of the UCSD Interdisciplinary PhD program in Cognitive Science for over ten years. He has served as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science departments of the University of Washington in Seattle and and at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and has been a visiting scholar at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 4th edition (25 June 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 1272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0131365894
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0131365896
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 23 x 4 x 18.9 cm
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Walter John Savitch (born February 21, 1943) is best known for discovering the complexity class NL (nondeterministic logarithmic space), and for Savitch's theorem, which defines a relationship between the NSPACE and DSPACE complexity classes. His work in establishing complexity classes has helped to create the background against which non-deterministic and probabilistic reasoning can be performed.

He has also done extensive work in the field of natural language processing and mathematical linguistics. He has been focused on computational computing as it applies to genetics and biology for over 10 years.

Aside from his work in theoretical computer science, Savitch has written a number of textbooks for learning to program in C/C++, Java, Ada, Pascal and others.

Savitch received his PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1969 under the supervision of Stephen Cook. Since then he has been a professor at UCSD where he is currently a professor emeritus in the computer science department.

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Colin Hofman
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on 10 February 2010
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Great book. Im not new to programming in any sense of the word, but I am new to java and to object oriented programming in general. I do prefer event driven programming but this book definately does good in explaining the idea behind OOP. The book is a great begginer book and describes what is goin on in the background to give a person a better understanding of programming. For anyone new to Java, Like myself, I recommended this book.
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Gerard J. Sagliocca
4.0 out of 5 stars Better book thatn Deitel's JAVA textbook
Reviewed in the United States on 18 May 2008
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I have read both books by Savitch and Deitel, and Savitch is by far clearer, although Savitch could still buff the textbook out a bit more with explaining "Compositon" topic better and clarifying paramater type <T>.

Also Savitch summarizes every subsection and I am not 100% sure this is necessary in all subsections.

Savitch should urge his publisher not to begin a new subsection at the bottom of a page!

Savitch should make available more solutions in a separate manaul for those wishing it.

Overall I would say Savitch saved my day with my 2 JAVA courses. Deitel starts out with graphics, assuming the student will graps Java better but Deitel introduces some rather major concepts when doing this and I don't think the students would appreciate the complex ideas without using Savitch step by step methodologies. Deitel assumes a student undestands the concept of "extends", "implements" etc and this is exactly what graphics class uses and Deitel assumes students will understand these concepts just because they are graphical in nature. Savithc covers these concepts later when other major concepts are covered so that a student will appreciate the "extends" concepts much better.

So Savitch and Deitel cover the same material, but in different sequences. And I believe that Savitch's approach works better and helps the student understand the more difficult concepts later in the textbook.

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Dave
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
Reviewed in the United States on 23 February 2007
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It took me a couple months of my own time reading this book to prepare myself for a second round back to school. I have not programmed in almost 8 years and it was in C. I have to say that as an introductory programming book, Savitch did a superb job. You cannot get any more clear on the topics of the basics and foundations of the Java language than this. If you're just a passerby that just wants to get yourself started in Java, I recommend this book.
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Jonathan Lovelace
3.0 out of 5 stars If that's wrong, what else is?
Reviewed in the United States on 27 January 2016
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As a basic introduction to programming and to Java, I suppose it's OK. It seemed unnecessarily brief on points I thought would most warrant extended discussion, and unnecessarily expansive on points I thought would have been better handled very briefly, but since very little of the material was at all new to me, I don't have a good sense of how Savitch's pacing and organization serve his intended audience.

There is one trivial problem, however, that I find very telling: his placement of braces in sample code. In C and C++, it's a matter of significant debate as to whether opening braces should be alone on a line, visually aligned with their matching closing braces, or immediately following the statement or expression the block is attached to---some companies, organizations, and major projects require the one, and some the other. So if this were a book teaching one of those languages, his consistent use of the former style would be reasonable, though it wastes the equivalent of a page or two of vertical space. In Java, however, *no* major project uses that style; this book, and examples largely produced from (a later version of) it by my current instructor, are the only places I have *ever* seen Java code using this style. So where else is this book likely to mislead?
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Alabaster
1.0 out of 5 stars Not great
Reviewed in the United States on 17 September 2019
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I agree with what another reviewer said... “The concepts themselves are not difficult to understand but the way the author presents the concepts is confusing and mind numbing.” The book is written very poorly and in such a way that makes the topics incomprehensible and the reading frustrating. The author seems to enjoy hearing himself talk, a lot... but it does not seem to me that the author’s intent was to present the material in a way that anyone could understand... which is easily doable should the author choose to do so.

My last java book was a masterpiece compared to this. “Starting out with Java” I think it was called. As far as I’m concerned that book should be the measure to which all other Java books are compared.
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