文件名称：像计算机科学家一样思考 java
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java
This is the fourth edition of a book I started writing in 1999, when I was teaching
at Colby College. I had taught an introductory computer science class using the
Java programming language, but I had not found a textbook I was happy with.
For one thing, they were all too big! There was no way my students would read
800 pages of dense, technical material, even if I wanted them to. And I didn't
want them to. Most of the material was too speci¯c|details about Java and its
libraries that would be obsolete by the end of the semester, and that obscured
the material I really wanted to get to.
The other problem I found was that the introduction to object oriented programming
was too abrupt. Many students who were otherwise doing well just
hit a wall when we got to objects, whether we did it at the beginning, middle
or end.
So I started writing. I wrote a chapter a day for 13 days, and on the 14th day I
edited. Then I sent it to be photocopied and bound. When I handed it out on
the ¯rst day of class, I told the students that they would be expected to read
one chapter a week. In other words, they would read it seven times slower than
I wrote it.