Java is one of the most widely used programming languages today. It was
first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Over the years, its
popularity has grown to the point where it plays an important role in
most of our lives. From laptops to data centers, game consoles to
scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is
everywhere! There are tons of applications and heaps of websites that
will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every
day. And, of course, Java is used to power what has become the world's
most dominant mobile platform, Android.
Advanced Topics In Java teaches the algorithms and concepts that any
budding software developer should know. You'll delve into topics such as
sorting, searching, merging, recursion, random numbers and simulation,
among others. You will increase the range of problems you can solve when
you learn how to create and manipulate versatile and popular data
structures such as binary trees and hash tables.
This book assumes you have a working knowledge of basic programming
concepts such as variables, constants, assignment, selection (if..else)
and looping (while, for). It also assumes you are comfortable with
writing functions and working with arrays. If you study this book
carefully and do the exercises conscientiously, you would become a
better and more agile software developer, more prepared to code today's
applications - no matter the language.
