Murach's Java SE 6
More than 100 schools have adopted our core Java book.
And ever since the first edition of this book was published
in 2001, it's been a favorite of instructors and students
because of the clear, concise way it teaches Java and
OO programming.
What does this Java book do differently? In chapter 2, it presents a
complete Java application that uses the Scanner class
to get input data. From that point on, all of the OOP
concepts are presented in the context of Java applications.
Above all, our book always uses business applications
instead of "toy" applications, so OO concepts are never
presented without real-world relevance.
The SE 6 edition is basically the same book as the
JDK 5 edition that was published in 2005. But it includes
the major enhancements that were introduced in SE 6,
including the StAX XML API, automatic database driver
loading, iterable SQL exceptions, and the Derby database
for building applications with embedded databases.
By the way, the earlier editions had "Beginning" in
the title. But we've dropped that because we found it
was too limiting. This is a book that will follow your
students into the workplace and serve them as an everyday
reference there.
One caveat: This book doesn't adhere to the ACM Curriculum for Computer Science courses (but it works great for all other introductory Java courses).
Training aids in the book itself: Practice exercises
Training aids available in our Downloads section:
Source code and data for selected book applications
(also available in Eclipse and NetBeans versions); Starting
code and data for the exercises (also available in Eclipse
and NetBeans versions); Workbook with study aids like
instructional objectives, review questions, exercises,
and student projects; Tutorials
on using the Eclipse, NetBeans, and BlueJ IDEs
Instructor's CD
The Instructor's CD for this book includes these materials:
- Instructional objectives by chapter
- PowerPoint slides for classroom presentations
- Starting code and test data for the exercises in the book, plus exercise solutions
- Student projects and model solutions
- A test bank in ExamView, WebCT, and Blackboard formats
- A student workbook with study aids like the instructional
objectives, exercises, review questions, and projects
- Source code and data for all of the book applications
For a detailed look at these materials, please view
the Instructor's Summary that we've prepared (it's
a PDF document). Then, if you like what you see, you
can request a review copy of
the book and its Instructor's CD. Or, for more information,
you can email us at murachbooks@murach.com
or call us at 1-800-221-5528.
We realize that instead of using TextPad to develop
Java programs as shown in our book, you may want your
students to use an IDE like Eclipse, NetBeans, or BlueJ.
Likewise, you may want them to use a GUI builder instead
of creating Swing code from scratch.
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to use
our book with products like these.
So we provide
free, downloadable tutorials on using these IDEs with our book. For Eclipse and NetBeans, we also provide versions of the book applications and exercise starts that will run under the IDEs.
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