George Aroush, instructor
Required text book:
Title Java How to Program Authors Paul J. Deitel, and Harvey M. Deitel Publisher Prentice Hall Computer Books ISBN 0-13-034151-7 List Price $76.00 Alternative text and/or electronic book:
Title Thinking in Java -- Second Edition Author Bruce Eckel Publisher Prentice Hall Computer Books ISBN 0-13-027363-5 List Price $44.99 Free Download http://www.mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites/ Highly recommended text book:
Title Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition in C Authors James D. Foley (Editor), Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner, and John F. Hughes Publisher Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN 0-201-12110-7 List Price $74.99 NOTE: This book starts form the beginning and goes on to quite an advance level; it would be useful for years to come and is considered as the Bible; but be warned that it is heavily mathematical.
Topics:
Lecture 1 Introduction; Using Eclipse; Compiling in Java; Simple Variables Lecture 2 What is an OS; Introduction to Graphics and Graphics Functions Lecture 3 The World Wide Web; Loops & Controls -- Part I; Simple Animation Lecture 4 Writing Methods Lecture 5 Array Variables; 2D Shapes & Transformations Lecture 6 Colors; More Loops & Controls -- Part II; Sines, Cosines & Curves; Floating Point Lecture 7 A True Java Applet; 2D Array; 2D Transform; Switches Lecture 8 3D Graphics -- Part I Lecture 9 3D Graphics -- Part II Lecture 10 3D Graphics -- Part III Lecture 11 Using the Mouse; Working with Classes; Overloading Lecture 12 More on Java's classes; Inheratation Lecture 13 A look at Java's AWT and Events
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