Problem Solving with Data Structures Using Java

A Multimedia Approach

By: Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson

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Hardcover | 1 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Problem Solving with Data Structures, First Edition is not a traditional data structures textbook that teaches concepts in an abstract, and often dry, context that focuses on data structures using numbers. Instead, this book takes a more creative approach that uses media and simulations (specifically, trees and linked lists of images and music), to make concepts more concrete, more relatable, and therefore much more motivating for students.

This book is appropriate for both majors and non-majors. It provides an introduction to object-oriented programming in Java, arrays, linked lists, trees, stacks, queues, lists, maps, and heaps. It also covers an existing simulation package (Greenfoot) and how to create continuous and discrete event simulations.

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â An innovative departure from the typical presentation of this content; it uses a multimedia context to highly engage students. This is a refreshing applied/practical presentation than the more common abstract one.â â Tom Wulf, University of Cincinnati College of Applied Science

â This textbook [Guzdial/Ericson] may be a way to introduce computer science students to data structures without losing them as majors!â â Helen Hu, Westminster College

â The applications are just so darn interesting!â â Kathy Liszka, University of Akron

â Overall, I think the examples and applications are more interesting and relevant than other CS2 textbooks that I have seen before.â â Timothy Huang, Middlebury College

â This text [Guzdial/Ericson] explores data structures using the context of pictures, sounds, music, animations, and simulations. It provides rich context for learning about the structuring of data using Java.â â Charles Fowler, Gainesville State College

â Other data structures books are generally boring. Guzdial/Ericson uses media computation successfully in introductory programming courses in both Java and Python. Students can see the usefulness and relevancy of programming to manipulating digital media.â â Kam Fui Lau, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Contents	p. iii
List of Program Examples	p. vii
List of Figures	p. xii
Introduction to Java: Object-Oriented Programming for Modeling a World	p. 5
Objects for Modeling a World.	p. 7
Making Representations of a World	p. 8
Why Java?	p. 15
Introduction to Java	p. 19
Whatrsquo;s Java about?	p. 19
Basic (Syntax) Rules of Java	p. 20
Using Java to Model the World	p. 28
Manipulating Pictures in Java	p. 40
Exploring Sound in Java	p. 45
Exploring Music in Java	p. 46
Methods in Java: Manipulating Pictures	p. 51
Reviewing Java Basics	p. 51
Java is about Classes and Methods	p. 56
Methods that return something: Compositing images	p. 63
Creating classes that do something	p. 73
Objects as Agents: Manipulating Turtles	p. 79
Turtles: An Early Computational Object	p. 79
Drawing with Turtles	p. 80
Creating animations with turtles and frames	p. 88
Arrays: A Static Data Structure for Sounds	p. 97
Manipulating Sampled Sounds	p. 97
Inserting and Deleting in an Array	p. 103
Introducing Linked Lists.	p. 109
Structuring Music using Linked Lists	p. 111
JMusic and Imports	p. 111
Starting out with JMusic	p. 115
Making a Simple Song Object	p. 116
Simple structuring of notes with an array	p. 119
Making the Song Something to Explore	p. 119
Making Any Song Something to Explore	p. 128
Exploring Music	p. 151
Structuring Images using Linked Lists	p. 169
Simple arrays of pictures	p. 170
Listing the Pictures, Left-to-Right	p. 170
Listing the Pictures, Layering	p. 176
Reversing a List	p. 185
Animation	p. 186
Lists with Two Kinds of Elements	p. 189
Trees: Hierarchical Structures for Media.	p. 207
Trees of Images	p. 209
Representing scenes with trees	p. 209
Our First Scene Graph: Attack of the Killer Wolvies hellip;.	p. 210
The Classes in the SceneGraph	p. 212
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