Concise and Practical Introduction to Programming Algorithms in Java

From the reviews: "This is an excellent book. ... The author takes an interesting and entirely appropriate approach to Java ... . the book is designed primarily as a textbook for class use, a programmer experienced in another procedural or object-oriented language, who would like to get started with Java, could also use it. The examples and exercises are definitely a lot more interesting than those found in most books aimed at professionals ... . I like this book and I recommend it." (Edgar R. Chavez, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2009)

• I. Getting Started.- Expressions, Variables and Assignments.- Conditional Structures and Loops.- Functions and Recursive Functions.- Arrays.- II. Data-Structures & Algorithms.- Objects and Strings.- Searching and Sorting.- Linked Lists.- Object-Oriented Data-Structures.- Paradigms for Optimization Problems.- The Science of Computing.- III. Exam Review.- Exam #x0026; Solution.