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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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
Providing an accessible introduction to Java for science and engineering students, this text begins by taking the reader gradually through the language features, standard libraries and object orientation. The second part of the book moves on to discuss libraries for scientific graphics and numerics and contains chapters introducing software engineering, physical modelling and more serious numerical algorithms.
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- PublisherAddison-Wesley
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0201398133
- ISBN 13 9780201398137
- BindingTextbook Binding
- Edition number1
- Number of pages310
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