JAVA: An Eventful Approach

This site provides access to teaching materials associated with the text, Java: An eventful approach by Kim B. Bruce, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk, and Thomas P. Murtagh, which is published by Prentice-Hall. The key features of the approach taken by our text are "objects first", "events first", and "concurrency early." We also emphasize graphics as a pedagogical aid. Students use graphical objects and do event-driven programming (primarily using mouse events) from the beginning. Concurrency is introduced at about 1/3 of the way through the text. The papers found under the "Instructor's Resources" link discuss the pedagogical advantages of this approach.

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