Learning Java: A Test-Driven Approach
Learning Java: A Test-Driven Approach
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031666372 | 474 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031666372 | 474 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
This introductory textbook on Java programming is different from others by its emphasis on test-driven development. Writing tests before designing the implementation is incredibly important for debugging purposes and understanding the desired outcome. While testing is often an afterthought in other Java textbooks (being placed at the very end or not at all, which is in some ways cruel to withhold such capabilities from the student), this text takes a different, perhaps "functional“ approach to learning Java: it introduces testing and methods from the start, followed by conditionals, recursion, and loops (on purpose in this very order). It then dives deep into data structures and the Java Collections API, including streams and generics. After this, it pivots to object-oriented programming, exceptions and I/O, searching and sorting, algorithm analysis, and eventually advanced Java/programming topics.