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• Digital multimedia emphasis — Teaches students to understand and control the technologies in their daily lives, making the study of computer science more directly relevant and useful.
• Student-friendly organization — Begins each chapter with a mix of computer science and media learning objectives, emphasizing Java programming concepts  and media computation.
•  Compelling examples — Demonstrates the manipulation of media in appealing ways.
•  Informative boxed materials – Address topics such as common bugs, tips for better learning, and important computer science concepts.
•  Immediate reinforcement — Provides valuable feedback at point of use as students view the dynamic effects of their efforts on a picture, sound, text, or movie.
•  Over 140 working programs — Show students how to manipulate media in useful ways, from reducing red eye and splicing sounds to generating digital video special effects.
•  Accompanying CD-ROM —Packaged with your textbook, the Student CD contains J2SE software for use in writing, compiling, and executing Java programs. Both versions 1.5 (also called 5.0) and 1.4 are included on the CD. As a special feature, the version of MediaTools on this CD includes a button in the Pixel Tools to change the scale of a picture, to make it easier to use your digital camera pictures in DrJava.
• InstructorResourceCenter — This instructor download site is a password-protected area of the Prentice Hall online catalog that provides instructors quick access to presentation and assessment resources. For access to these resources, please contact your PH Sales Rep.Reduces lecture preparation time with engaging slides that support the text.  Accessible via download, the IRC features: 
  • Pre-built PowerPoint Lecture Presentation
  • Instructor Solutions Manual
  • Code Solutions from the book
•  Guzdial/Ericson Companion Web site – Available to students and instructors, the Companion Website is a free resource complete with student tools and assessment resources to help instructors plan and manage their courses. The Companion Web site enables instructors to create a syllabus using the Syllabus Manager tool, accessible anywhere and anytime by students, with assignments from on-line and print materials. In addition, instructors can access Lecture Notes and Code from the book. The Companion Web site is a valuable self-study resource for students with links, code and tools to ensure success in your course. Go to www.prenhall.com/guzdial to access to companion web site.

Table of Contents

Preface iv

Contents xi

1 Introduction to Computer Science and Media Computation

2 Introduction to Java

3 Introduction to Programming

4 Modifying Pictures using Loops

5 Modifying Pixels in a Matrix

6 Conditionally Modifying Pixels

7 Drawing

8 Modifying all Samples in a Sound

9 Modifying Samples using Ranges

10 Combining and Creating Sounds

11 Creating Classes

12 Creating and Modifying Text

13 Making Text for the Web

14 Encoding, Manipulating, and Creating Movies

15 Speed

16 JavaScript

APPENDICES

A Quick Reference to Java

A.1 Variables

A.2 Method Declarations

A.3 Loops

A.4 Conditionals

A.5 Operators

A.6 String escapes

A.7 Classes

A.8 Fields

A.9 Constructors

A.10 Packages

Courses

Java Programming  (Computer Science)
Introduction to Computer Science (CS0)  (Computer Science)

Introduction to Computing and Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach

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Barbara Ericson is a research scientist and the Director of Computing Outreach for the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. She has been working on improving introductory computing education for over 5 years. She enjoys the diversity of the types of problems she has worked on over the years in computing including computer graphics, artificial intelligence, medicine, and object-oriented programming.

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Mark Guzdial is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. ¿An award-winning teacher and active researcher in computing education, he holds a joint Ph.D. In Education and Computer Science from the University of Michigan. Dr. Guzdial directs Project “Georgia Computes!” which is an NSF funded alliance to improve computing education from pre-teen years to undergraduates. ¿He is a member of the ACM Education Board and is a frequent contributor to the ACM SIGCSE (Computer Science Education) Symposium.

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Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial are recipients of the 2010 Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award for their contributions to broadening participation in computing. They created the Media Computation (MediaComp) approach, which motivates students to write programs that manipulate and create digital media, such as pictures, sounds, and videos.¿Now in use in nearly 200 schools around the world, this contextualized approach to introductory Computer Science attracts students not motivated by classical algorithmic problems addressed in traditional computer science education.¿They also lead “Georgia Computes!” an NSF-funded statewide alliance to increase the number and diversity of students in computing education across all of Georgia.¿ Barbara Ericson directs the Institute for Computing Education at Georgia Tech. Mark Guzdial is director of the Contextualized Support for Learning at Georgia Tech.¿ Together they have written three textbooks using the MediaComp approach to engage and inspire student learning in computing.¿The Karlstrom Award recognizes educators who advanced new teaching methodologies; effected new curriculum development in Computer Science and Engineering; or contributed to ACM’s educational mission.

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New computer science students are far more motivated when they are creating programs they care about. Reflecting that insight, this complete first course in Java introduces each new concept in the context of programs that manipulate students’own sounds, pictures, web pages, and video: programs that help them communicate.

Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson draw on their innovative work at Georgia Tech, work that has significantly improved student success, and earned the recognition of the National Science Foundation. This book presents new techniques only after demonstrating why students need them to solve meaningful problems. Students can then run their digital media programs get immediate feedback that helps them stay on the right track.

Open-ended assignments are designed to motivate, promote creativity, and encourage collaboration and friendly competition, using the simple, intuitive, lightweight DrJava development environment. At the same time, students learn to create robust, efficient Java code for any IDE or platform. 

Skills include:

• fundamentals of object development 
• loops, arrays, and matrices 
• drawing with Java’s Graphics and Graphics2D classes
• generating HTML databases and using basic SQL queries 
• understanding and modifying algorithms 
• program performance and reliability

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