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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
This is a CS 2 book that presents classical data structures in an object-oriented programming (OOP) context using Java. This book also focuses on the basic principles of OOP and graphical user interface (GUI)-based programming – two paradigms essential for modern programming and problem solving. Our book is aimed principally at CS 2 students but may also be valuable to software development professionals who wish to upgrade their skills in the areas of OOP, GUI programming, and classical data structures.
The software development principles associated with OOP provide a strong framework for presenting and implementing classical data structures. We adhere to and emphasize these principles throughout this book.
Universities have been slow to introduce courses related to OOP into their curricula. Curriculum change has always occurred slowly at universities, but the past dozen years have been particularly disappointing in the area of OOP education. Often a department assumes that because it has switched language from Pascal or C to C++ or Java in CS 1 or CS 2 that it has made a commitment to object-oriented software education. This is simply not true. Object orientation embodies a set of principles often obscured by the intensive preoccupation with language details often evident in early university courses and the books that cater to these courses. The spate of CS 1 and CS 2 books featuring C++ or Java are often nothing more than warmed-over reruns of structured programming texts written originally for Pascal or C.
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