Table of Contents | Introduction to Computing & Programming Algebra in Java(c) A Multimedia Approach



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Introduction to Computing & Programming in Java™: A Multimedia Approach
By Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson - College of Computing/GVU Georgia Institute of Technology
Publisher	: Prentice Hall
Pub Date	: April 07, 2006
Print ISBN-10	: 0-13-049698-0
eText ISBN-10	: 0-13-186044-5
eText ISBN-13	: 978-0-13-186044-5
Pages	: 592

Copyright
Trademark Page			vi
Preface			xxi
About the Authors			xxix
About the CDROM			xxxi
Part 1: Introduction			1
	Chapter 1. Introduction to Computer Science and Media Computation			2
		Section 1.1. What is Computer Science About?			2
		Section 1.2. What Computers Understand			7
		Section 1.3. Media Computation: Why Digitize Media?			9
		Section 1.4. Computer Science for Everyone			10
		Problems			11
		To Dig Deeper			13
	Chapter 2. Introduction to Java			14
		Section 2.1. Java			14
		Section 2.2. Introduction to DrJava			16
		Section 2.3. Java Basics			19
		Section 2.4. Variables			25
		Section 2.5. Concepts Summary			33
		Problems			35
		To Dig Deeper			37
	Chapter 3. Introduction to Programming			38
		Section 3.1. Programming is About Naming			38
		Section 3.2. Files and Their Names			40
		Section 3.3. Class and Object Methods			41
		Section 3.4. Working with Turtles			43
		Section 3.5. Creating Methods			50
		Section 3.6. Working with Media			59
		Section 3.7. Concepts Summary			69
		Objects and Methods Summary			70
		Problems			72
		To Dig Deeper			73
Part 2: Pictures			75
	Chapter 4. Modifying Pictures Using Loops			76
		Section 4.1. How Pictures are Encoded			76
		Section 4.2. Manipulating Pictures			85
		Section 4.3. Changing Color Values			91
		Section 4.4. Concepts Summary			124
		Objects and Methods Summary			126
		Problems			127
		To Dig Deeper			130
	Chapter 5. Modifying Pixels in a Matrix			131
		Section 5.1. Copying Pixels			131
		Section 5.2. Copying and Transforming Pictures			142
		Section 5.3. Concepts Summary			167
		Objects and Methods Summary			170
		Problems			170
		To Dig Deeper			172
	Chapter 6. Conditionally Modifying Pixels			173
		Section 6.1. Conditional Pixel Changes			173
		Section 6.2. Simple Edge Detection: Conditionals with Two Options			182
		Section 6.3. Sepia-Toned and Posterized Pictures: Using Multiple Conditionals to Choose the Color			186
		Section 6.4. Highlighting Extremes			193
		Section 6.5. Combining Pixels: Blurring			194
		Section 6.6. Background Subtraction			197
		Section 6.7. Chromakey			202
		Section 6.8. Concepts Summary			205
		Problems			207
	Chapter 7. Drawing			212
		Section 7.1. Drawing Using the Graphics Class			212
		Section 7.2. Programs as Specifying Drawing Process			226
		Section 7.3. Using Graphics2D for Advanced Drawing			230
		Section 7.4. Concepts Summary			245
		Objects and Methods Summary			246
		Problems			249
Part 3: Sounds			251
	Chapter 8. Modifying All Samples in a Sound			252
		Section 8.1. How Sound is Encoded			252
		Section 8.2. Manipulating Sounds			262
		Section 8.3. Changing the Volume of Sounds			271
		Section 8.4. Normalizing Sounds			280
		Section 8.5. Concepts Summary			284
		Objects and Methods Summary			287
		Problems			289
		To Dig Deeper			292
	Chapter 9. Modifying Samples Using Ranges			293
		Section 9.1. Manipulating Different Sections of a Sound Differently			293
		Section 9.2. Create a Sound Clip			295
		Section 9.3. Splicing Sounds			297
		Section 9.4. Reversing a Sound			304
		Section 9.5. Mirroring a Sound			306
		Section 9.6. Concepts Summary			307
		Problems			308
		To Dig Deeper			311
	Chapter 10. Making Sounds by Combining Pieces			312
		Section 10.1. Composing Sounds Through Addition			312
		Section 10.2. Blending Sounds			313
		Section 10.3. Creating an Echo			315
		Section 10.4. How Sampling Keyboards Work			318
		Section 10.5. Additive Synthesis			325
		Section 10.6. Modern Music Synthesis			333
		Section 10.7. Concepts Summary			339
		Problems			340
		To Dig Deeper			342
	Chapter 11. Creating Classes			343
		Section 11.1. Identifying the Objects and Fields			344
		Section 11.2. Defining a Class			344
		Section 11.3. Overloading Constructors			356
		Section 11.4. Creating and Initializing an Array			356
		Section 11.5. Creating Accessors (Getters) and Modifiers (Setters)			363
		Section 11.6. Creating a Main Method			366
		Section 11.7. Javadoc Comments			367
		Section 11.8. Creating Another Class			369
		Section 11.9. Reusing a Class Via Inheritance			373
		Section 11.10. Concepts Summary			379
		Problems			382
Part 4: Text, Files, Networks, Databases, and Unimedia			385
	Chapter 12. Creating and Modifying Text			386
		Section 12.1. Text as Unimedia			387
		Section 12.2. Strings: Character Sequences			387
		Section 12.3. Files: Places to Put Your Strings and Other Stuff			394
		Section 12.4. Other Useful Classes			417
		Section 12.5. Networks: Getting Our Text from the Web			421
		Section 12.6. Using Text to Shift Between Media			427
		Section 12.7. Concepts Summary			433
		Problems			438
	Chapter 13. Making Text for the Web			442
		Section 13.1. HTML: The Notation of the Web			442
		Section 13.2. Writing Programs to Generate HTML			447
		Section 13.3. Databases: A Place to Store Our Text			459
		Section 13.4. Relational Databases			466
		Section 13.5. Concepts Summary			477
		Problems			479
		To Dig Deeper			481
Part 5: Movies			483
	Chapter 14. Encoding, Manipulating, and Creating Movies			484
		Section 14.1. Generating Frame-Based Animations			485
		Section 14.2. Working with Video Frames			494
		Section 14.3. Concepts Summary			501
		Problems			501
Part 6: Topics in Computer Science			503
	Chapter 15. Speed			504
		Section 15.1. Focusing on Computer Science			504
		Section 15.2. What Makes Programs Fast?			504
		Section 15.3. What Makes a Computer Fast?			522
		Section 15.4. Concepts Summary			525
		Problems			525
		To Dig Deeper			528
	Chapter 16. JavaScript: A Web Page Programming Language			529
		Section 16.1. JavaScript Syntax			529
		Section 16.2. JavaScript Inside of Web Pages			531
		Section 16.3. User Interfaces in JavaScript			534
		Section 16.4. Multimedia in JavaScript			540
		Section 16.5. Concepts Summary			541
		Problems			541
		To Dig Deeper			542
Appendix A. Quick Reference to Java			543
	Section A.1. Variables			543
	Section A.2. Method Declarations			544
	Section A.3. Loops			546
	Section A.4. Conditionals			547
	Section A.5. Operators			547
	Section A.6. String Escapes			548
	Section A.7. Classes			548
	Section A.8. Fields			549
	Section A.9. Constructors			549
	Section A.10. Packages			549
Bibliography			551
Using the Student CD			InsideBackCover
	Included on the CD			InsideBackCover
	System Requirements			InsideBackCover
	Installation			InsideBackCover
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