- Textbook Binding: 312 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (9 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201398133
- ISBN-13: 978-0201398137
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.3 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,491,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Java is currently enjoying immense success and is taught in hundreds of universities around the world. It is a modern, portable, object-oriented language and before long, it could also be the language of choice for many science and engineering students.
Introductory Java for Scientists and Engineers provides an extremely accessible and thorough introduction to Java for science and engineering students. It takes the reader gradually through the language features, standard libraries and object orientation before moving on to discuss a scientific graphics library and a numerical library for Java. All the examples perform the kind of computations that will be of interest to a scientific programmer.
Introductory Java for Scientists and Engineers provides an extremely accessible and thorough introduction to Java for science and engineering students. It takes the reader gradually through the language features, standard libraries and object orientation before moving on to discuss a scientific graphics library and a numerical library for Java. All the examples perform the kind of computations that will be of interest to a scientific programmer.
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Java is currently enjoying immense success and is taught in hundreds of universities around the world. It is a portable, object-oriented language and could soon be the language of choice for students across scientific and engineering disciplines.
Introductory Java for Scientists and Engineers provides an extremely accessible and thorough introduction to Java for science and engineering students. The first part takes the reader gradually through the language features, standard libraries and object orientation. The second part moves on to discuss libraries for scientific graphics and numerics and contains chapters introducing software engineering, physical modelling and more serious numerical algorithms.
Unlike most other books on Java, discussion is not dominated by writing user interface code, and all of the examples perform the kind of computations that will be of interest to a scientific programmer.
Features:
- Written entirely for the Java 2 platform, as supported by JDK 1.2
- Scientific and engineering examples thoughout
- Chapter objectives, summaries and end of chapter exercises
- No previous knowledge of programming required
- Includes conversion material for Pascal, Fortran, C and C++
- Coverage of two useful libraries: the JNL, a numerical library for Java and the JSGL, a scientific graphics library for Java
- Accompanying website at http://www.jscieng.co.uk/ containing examples, code and links to other useful resources
- Clear and careful explanation throughout
- Attractive and reader-friendly presentation
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This book is the perfect companion for an engineering student who needs to learn Java fast. It has a simple and effective introduction into the basics of Java, eliminating most of the computer jargon and gets straight to the point. Concentrating mainly on methods which are usefull to an engineers.
The examples in the book, are clear and based entirely on maths and physics problems. With the downloads availiable on their website it reduces the need for lengthy sessions copying code from the book. Included on the website is a package for GUIs, allowing you to illustrate your numerical output of your program with charts and graphs.
The only fault I can find in the book, is the lack of data manipulation. It overlooks the fact that the main reason for devising an engineering computer program is to aid the engineer/scientist in the laboratory. A computer program should be able to deal with large amounts of data inputted by the user and produce results in the form of graphs and tables, cutting out the need for manual calculations.
The majority of books which are aimed at the same audience are also lacking in this area. I think this would be a valuable addition to any Java book aimed at engineers!
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Begins well, but becomes very complex
28 Mar 2000
Format:Textbook Binding
Java is an incredibly popular, albeit arguably difficult language. Many of us in the 'technical trades' may want to learn Java because of its cross-platform or built-in graphics capabilities, but may be put off by many of the Java books intended for computer scientists or web developers. This book begins well, but by chapter 4 is becoming all too complex. I would have liked to have seen far more 'hand-holding' explanation in the middle chapters, and more information couched in terms that may be more familiar to established engineers and scientists, e.g. more examples showing the similarities and differences between Java and older languages such as Fortran, Basic and Pascal.
Accessible and useful
25 July 2002
Format:Textbook Binding
This is a pretty accessible book. It's the first book I ever looked at on Java, and I didn't find it at all difficult to understand the presentation of ideas. About the first half of it is very useful, as well. The second half gets into a graphics library and a numerical functions library, both of which were written for this book. If you have need of such things, you'll find the second half of the book as useful as the first; if not, you'll probably want to move on next to the 4th edition of "Java In A Nutshell," by David Flanagan.
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