C++ and
Java for Computation-Heavy
Applications in Business, Science,
and Engineering
About the Book
Virtually all business, scientific, and engineering
applications are heavily reliant on numeric data items.
C++ and Java offer object-oriented programmers unique
flexibility and control over the computations required
within such applications.
However, most books on object-oriented programming
gloss over such numeric data items, emphasizing instead
one-dimensional containers or collections and components
of the graphical user interface.
Object-Oriented Computation in C++ and Java fills
the gap left by such books.
Drawing on more than 20 years' experience as a software
developer, tester, consultant, and professor, Conrad
Weisert shows readers how to use numeric objects effectively.
Not limited to any language or methodology, the concepts
and techniques discussed in this book are entirely
independent of one's choice of design and coding methodology.
Practitioners of Extreme Programming, UML-driven
design, agile methods, incremental development, and
so on will all develop these same data classes.
Whether you are a seasoned professional or an advanced
computer science student, this book can teach you
techniques that will improve the quality of your programming
and the efficiency of your applications. The exercises
(and answers) presented in this book with teach you
new ways to implement the computational power of C++,
Java, and numeric data items.
Topics include
taxonomy of data types
developing and using object-oriented classes for
numeric data
design patterns for commonly occurring numeric
data types
families of interacting numeric data types
choosing efficient and flexible internal data
representations
"The exposition and examples
use C++. . . . near the end of most chapters, I convert
the most important examples to Java. . . . [Dorsethouse.com]
contains source code in both languages. . . . Even
if your preferred programming language is C#, Python,
Ruby, or Smalltalk, you'll find most of this book
helpful."
—from the Introduction
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Reviews
"Most of the programming
books I've read tend to gloss over the numbers.
Sure, you know that the numbers exist and that you
can perform basic math with them, but you never
really see how to do it. After a few minutes in
the limelight, the numbers disappear and the author
replaces them with the more exciting machinations
of the user interface (not that there's anything
wrong with the user interface; applications need
a user interface too). Many books simply don't include
much about the numbers, especially the math behind
the numbers. If you've found yourself wondering
how to make the math work, this is a great book
to get. Instead of giving you a couple simple math
examples that don't reflect the real world, you'll
find yourself working with code that fully demonstrates
practical math techniques. . . .
"The book is well-organized and relatively easy
to read, but the author also doesn't candy-coat
the complexity of the topic. You'll find that you
learn quite a lot in the scant 194 pages that this
book provides."
"This is very good and thought-provoking material
that would work well in the classroom. . . . problems
for consideration and coding are scattered throughout
the text. Answers to many of the problems are included
in an appendix. . . . this book is an excellent
source of deep-thought problems in C++ design and
development. . ."
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