Overview
- Helps students to learn software design by discovering the experience of the design process, with a focus on object-oriented design, and by using the Java programming language
- Covers all relevant design topics, including types and interfaces, encapsulation, inheritance, patterns, composition, unit testing, and many more
- Complemented by three sample applications that capture numerous design decisions, as well as a companion website with additional practice problems
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The first chapter is a general introduction to software design. The subsequent chapters cover design concepts and techniques, which are presented as a continuous narrative anchored in specific design problems. The design concepts and techniques covered include effective use of types and interfaces, encapsulation, composition, inheritance, design patterns, unit testing, and many more. A major emphasis is placed on coding and experimentation as a necessary complement to reading the text. To support this aspect of the learning process, a companion website with practice problems is provided, and three sample applications that capture numerous design decisions are included. Guidance on these sample applications is provided in a section called “Code Exploration” at the end of each chapter. Although the Java language is used as a means of conveying design-related ideas, the book’s main goal is to address concepts and techniques that are applicable in a host of technologies.
This book is intended for readers who have a minimum of programming experience and want to move from writing small programs and scripts to tackling the development of larger systems. This audience naturally includes students in university-level computer science and software engineering programs. As the prerequisites to specific computing concepts are kept to a minimum, the content is also accessible to programmers without a primary training in computing. In a similar vein, understanding the code fragments requires only a minimal grasp of the language, such as would be taught in an introductory programming course.
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Book Title: Introduction to Software Design with Java
Authors: Martin P. Robillard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24094-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24094-3Published: 12 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations
Topics: Software Engineering, Java, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters