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This book presents a guide to the core features of Java – and some more recent innovations – enabling the reader to build skills and confidence though tried-and-trusted stages, supported by exercises that reinforce key learning points. All of the most useful and commonly applied Java syntax and libraries are introduced, along with many example programs that can provide the basis for more substantial applications. Use of the Eclipse IDE and the JUnit testing framework is integral to the book, ensuring maximum productivity and code quality, although to ensure that skills are not confined to one environment the fundamentals of the Java compiler and run time are also explained. Additionally, coverage of the Ant tool will equip the reader with the skills to automatically build, test and deploy applications independent of an IDE. Features: presents information on Java 7; contains numerous code examples and exercises; provides source code, self-test questions and PowerPoint slides at an associated website.

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Parsons’ third collection of poems, as in his previous books, carries the reader too many geographies, both physical and cerebral. The poems, perhaps his most eclectic and revealing, return to Austin, Texas, in the turbulent and carnal sixties, the sublime Hill Country streams, north to Montana’s Mystic Lake and hallowed Indian battle grounds, and with the deftness of a wise and worldly guide, you will travel the tender valves of the heart, where all creativity finds its passion, to the very quay, that zone between reality and the possible, what Garcia Lorca called duende.FEATHERING DEEPAfter Edward Hirsch’s“The Angel and the Demon”I believe it to beunlike any otherconveyancethe manner in whichit carries us inupon its own silencethe way an idea driftsinto the grey dividewhere we find ourselvesin that sacred state—easingquietly into the dark duendeto unconscious understandinga lone canoe at midnight—bladespaddling deep—smoothlyand deftly feathering that largest of bodies

Product Description: This volume draws together all the articles published by the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning in its first year of publication (2009). When compared with traditional classroom learning, mobile learning (m-learning) has the distinct advantage of making content accessible and available to a number of people in a wide range of different places...read more

Product Description: Academia and industry have only begun to explore the vast capabilities that the emerging field of mobile learning has to enrich education. To help researchers and practitioners drive the realization of the potential benefits of mobile learning technology to the next level, a thorough survey of the state of knowledge in this ascending field is vital...read more

Product Description: Providing an end-to-end view of how modern web applications are built, this book takes a cohesive approach to building a software architecture from core components. Suitable for web programming courses, it tells a development story through a running case study taking you through each phase - analysis, design and implementation...read more

Product Description: This second edition of "Introductory Java" covers the key features for students who are studying Java as their first object-oriented language. The book covers the basic concepts and syntax, with substantial chapters on core features such as classes and objects, program architecture and interface development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A practical handbook for studying the history and development of a church building, including those which have been converted to secular use. Emphasis is placed on analysing and understanding the standing structures, as well as studying the furniture, fittings and fabricof the building in an attempt to determine its function...read more

Product Description: This volume of 23 essays on the subject of runes, ranges from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet and the interpretations of individual inscriptions (the Rothwell Cross and the Franks casket), to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change...read more

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