Preface Preface
This book is a PreText adaptation of Java for Python Programmers (https://github.com/RunestoneInteractive/java4python) by Brad Miller, CS Awesome by Beryl Hoffman (https://github.com/RunestoneInteractive/csawesome) and Java, Java, Java: Object-Oriented Problem Solving, 2024E by Ralph Morelli, Ralph Walde, Beryl Hoffman, and David G. Cooper (https://github.com/ram8647/javajavajava).
In addition to helping students transition from Python to Java, this book is intended to facilitate their shift from procedural and functional programming to object-oriented programming. We introduce a structured design recipe for programming (https://htdp.org), specifically tailored to the principles and practices of object-oriented development.
The book is designed for students enrolled in the Introduction to Computer Science II course at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
This edition, released for the Spring 2025 semester, will continue to evolve during the semester to better highlight the interconnections between computational thinking and object oriented programming concepts.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which allows the book to be used, modified, and shared with attribution: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
