Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 135.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:27:47 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new book
Interdisciplinary Computing in Java Programming Language
by
Sun-Chong Wang
TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada
THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE -- 743
Books on computation in the marketplace tend to discuss the topics within
specific fields. Many computational algorithms, however, share common
roots. Great advantages emerge if numerical methodologies break the
boundaries and find their uses across disciplines. Interdisciplinary
Computing In Java Programming Language introduces readers of different
backgrounds to the beauty of the selected algorithms. Serious quantitative
researchers, writing customized codes for computation, enjoy cracking
source codes as opposed to the black-box approach. Most C and Fortran
programs, despite slightly faster in program execution, lack built-in
support for plotting and graphical user interface. This book selects Java
as the platform where source codes are developed and applications are run,
helping readers/users best appreciate the fun of computation.
Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Languageintroduces Java
Programming language within the first part of the book. The second part
includes ten chapters of algorithms. Each chapter includes a detailed
example application. The approach is therefore to elucidate the
algorithm(s) in the first half of the chapter, while devoting the rest of
the chapter to materializing the algorithmic concepts in Java with a
judiciously chosen example application. Other distinctive features of this
book include distributed/parallel computing and animation in Java.
Interdisciplinary Computing In Java Programming Language is designed to
meet the needs of a professional audience composed of practitioners and
researchers in science and technology. This book is also suitable for
senior undergraduate and graduate-level students in computer science, as a
secondary text.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-7513-8 Date: July 2003 Pages: 282 pp.
EURO 128.00 / USD 125.00 / GBP 80.00
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