Programming and Problem Solving with Java

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A Laboratory Course for Programming with Java™ISBN : 0763724637

Written by Nell Dale, this lab manual follows the organization of the text. The lab manual is
designed to allow the instructor maximum flexibility and may be used in both open and
closed laboratory settings. Each chapter contains three types of activities: Prelab, Inlab, and
Postlab. Each lesson is broken into exercises that thoroughly demonstrate the concept cov-
ered in the chapter. The applications, application shells (partial applications), and data files
are available online, and also on the Student Resource Disk for Java that accompanies your
textbook.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the many individuals who have helped us in the preparation of this
text. We are indebted to the members of the faculties of the Computer Science Departments
at the University of Texas at Austin, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the
University of Wisconsin – Lacrosse.
We extend special thanks to Jeff Brumfield for developing the syntax template meta-
language and allowing us to use it in this text.
For their many helpful suggestions, we thank the lecturers, teaching assistants, con-
sultants, and student proctors who run the courses for which this book was written, and the
students themselves.
We are grateful to the following people who took the time to review the manuscript at
various stages in its development: Rama Chakrapani, Tennessee Technological University;
Ilyas Cicekli, University of Central Florida; Jose Cordova, University of Louisiana at Monroe;
Mike Litman, Western Illinois University; and Rathika Rajaravivarma, Central Connecticut
State University.
We also thank Mike and Sigrid Wile, along with the many people at Jones and Bartlett
who contributed so much, especially J. Michael Stranz, Amy Rose, Theresa DiDonato, and
Anne Spencer.
Anyone who has ever written a book – or is related to someone who has – can appreci-
ate the amount of time involved in such a project. To our families – all the Dale clan and the
extended Dale Family (too numerous to name); to Lisa, Charlie, and Abby; to Anne, Brady, and
Kari – Thanks for your tremendous support and indulgence.
N.D.
C.W.
M.H.