Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your book. C# 3.0 Cookbook offers a new chapter on LINQ (language integrated query), plus two expanded chapters for recipes for extension methods, lambda functions, object initializers, new synchronization primitives and more.

Book Description

There are many books on data structures and algorithms , including some with useful libraries of C  functions. Mastering Algorithms with C offers you a unique combination of theoretical background and working code. With robust solutions for everyday programming tasks, this book avoids the abstract style of most classic data structures and algorithms texts, but still provides all of the information you need to understand the purpose and use of common programming techniques.

Implementations, as well as interesting, real-world examples of each data structure and algorithm, are included.

Using both a programming style and a writing style that are exceptionally clean, Kyle Loudon shows you how to use such essential data structures as lists, stacks, queues, sets, trees, heaps, priority queues, and graphs. He explains how to use algorithms for sorting, searching, numerical analysis, data compression, data encryption, common graph problems, and computational geometry. And he describes the relative efficiency of all implementations. The compression and encryption chapters not only give you working code for reasonably efficient solutions, they offer explanations of concepts in an approachable manner for people who never have had the time or expertise to study them in depth.

Anyone with a basic understanding of the C language can use this book. In order to provide maintainable and extendible code, an extra level of abstraction (such as pointers to functions) is used in examples where appropriate. Understanding that these techniques may be unfamiliar to some programmers, Loudon explains them clearly in the introductory chapters.

Contents include:

• Pointers
• Recursion
• Analysis of algorithms
• Data structures (lists, stacks, queues, sets, hash tables, trees, heaps, priority queues, graphs)
• Sorting and searching
• Numerical methods
• Data compression
• Data encryption
• Graph algorithms
• Geometric algorithms

Table of Contents
Part I: Preliminaries
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Pointer Manipulation
Chapter 3 Recursion
Chapter 4 Analysis of Algorithms

Part II: Data Structures
Chapter 5 Linked Lists
Chapter 6 Stacks and Queues
Chapter 7 Sets
Chapter 8 Hash Tables
Chapter 9 Trees
Chapter 10 Heaps and Priority Queues
Chapter 11 Graphs

Part III: Algorithms
Chapter 12 Sorting and Searching
Chapter 13 Numerical Methods
Chapter 14 Data Compression
Chapter 15 Data Encryption
Chapter 16 Graph Algorithms
Chapter 17 Geometric Algorithms

Book Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565924533
• ISBN-13: 978-1565924536

Beginning Java 7 guides you through this language and a huge assortment of platform APIs according to the following table of contents:

Chapter  1: Getting Started with Java
Chapter  2: Discovering Classes and Objects
Chapter  3: Exploring Advanced Language Features
Chapter  4: Touring Language APIs
Chapter  5: Collecting Objects
Chapter  6: Touring Additional Utility APIs
Chapter  7: Creating and Enriching Graphical User Interfaces
Chapter  8: Interacting with Filesystems
Chapter  9: Interacting with Networks and Databases
Chapter 10: Parsing, Creating, and Transforming XML Documents
Chapter 11: Working with Web Services
Chapter 12: Java 7 Meets Android
Appendix A: Solutions to Exercises
Appendix B: Scripting API and Dynamically Typed Language Support
Appendix C: Odds and Ends
Appendix D: Applications Gallery

Chapter 1 introduces you to Java and begins to cover the Java language by focusing on fundamental concepts such as comments, identifiers, variables, expressions, and statements.

Chapter 2 continues to explore this language by presenting all of its features for working with classes and objects. You learn about features related to class declaration and object creation, encapsulation, information hiding, inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, and garbage collection.

Chapter 3 focuses on the more advanced language features related to nested classes, packages, static imports, exceptions, assertions, annotations, generics, and enums. Additional chapters will introduce you to the few features not covered in Chapters 1 through 3.

Chapter 4 largely moves away from covering language features (although it does introduce class literals and strictfp) while focusing on language-oriented APIs. You learn about Math, StrictMath, Package, Primitive Type Wrapper Classes, Reference, Reflection, String, StringBuffer and StringBuilder, Threading, BigDecimal, and BigInteger in this chapter.

Chapter 5 begins to explore Java’s utility APIs by focusing largely on the Collections Framework. However, it also discusses legacy collection-oriented APIs and how to create your own collections.

Chapter 6 continues to focus on utility APIs by presenting the concurrency utilities along with the Objects and Random classes.

Chapter 7 moves you away from the command-line user interfaces that appear in previous chapters and toward graphical user interfaces. You first learn about the Abstract Window Toolkit foundation, and then explore the Java Foundation Classes in terms of Swing and Java 2D. Appendix C explores Accessibility and Drag and Drop.

Chapter 8 explores filesystem-oriented I/O in terms of the File, RandomAccessFile, stream, and writer/reader classes. New I/O is covered in Appendix C.

Chapter 9 introduces you to Java’s network APIs, such as sockets. It also introduces you to the JDBC API for interacting with databases.

Chapter 10 dives into Java’s XML support by first presenting an introduction to XML (including DTDs and schemas). It next explores the SAX, DOM, StAX, XPath, and XSLT APIs. It even briefly touches on the Validation API. While exploring XPath, you encounter namespace contexts, extension functions and function resolvers, and variables and variable resolvers.

Chapter 11 introduces you to Java’s support for SOAP-based and RESTful web services. In addition to providing you with the basics of these web service categories, Chapter 11 presents some advanced topics, such as working with the SAAJ API to communicate with a SOAP-based web service without having to rely on JAX-WS. You will appreciate having learned about XML in Chapter 10 before diving into this chapter.

Chapter 12 helps you put to use some of the knowledge you’ve gathered in previous chapters by showing you how to use Java to write an Android app’s source code. This chapter introduces you to Android, discusses its architecture, shows you how to install necessary tools, and develops a simple app.

Appendix A presents the solutions to the programming exercises that appear near the end of Chapters 1 through 12.

Appendix B introduces you to Java’s Scripting API along with Java 7′s support for dynamically typed languages.

Appendix C introduces you to additional APIs and architecture topics: Accessibility, ByteArrayOutputStream and ByteArrayInputStream, classloaders, Console, Desktop, Drag and Drop, Dynamic Layout, Extension Mechanism and ServiceLoader, File Partition-Space, File Permissions, Formatter, Image I/O, Internationalization, Java Native Interface, NetworkInterface and InterfaceAddress, New I/O (including NIO.2), PipedOutputStream and PipedInputStream, Preferences, Scanner, Security, Smart Card, Splash Screen, Stream Tokenizer, StringTokenizer, SwingWorker, System Tray, Timer and TimerTask, Tools and the Compiler API, Translucent and Shaped Window, and XML Digital Signature.

Appendix D presents a gallery of significant applications that demonstrate various aspects of Java.

Unfortunately, there are limits to how much knowledge can be crammed into a print book. For this reason, Appendixes A, B, C, and D are not included in this book’s pages. Instead, these appendixes are freely distributed as PDF files. Appendixes A and B are bundled with the book’s associated code file at the Apress website (http://www.apress.com).

Appendixes C and D are bundled with their respective code files on my TutorTutor.ca website at http://tutortutor.ca/cgi-bin/makepage.cgi?/books/bj7. Appendixes C and D are “living documents” in that I’ll occasionally add new material to them. For example, I plan to expand Appendix C by also covering Java Naming and Directory Interface, Java Sound, Remote Method Invocation and Corba, Robot, Runtime and Process, Swing Timer, and many other APIs/architecture topics (including a complete tour of Swing components). Of course, it will take time to write about these topics so don’t expect all of them to appear at once — they will slowly emerge in coming months (although smaller topics such as Robot will emerge much faster).

What you’ll learn

The entire Java language, including Java 7-specific features such as switch on string, try-with-resources, final rethrow, multicatch, and SafeVarargs
A huge assortment of Java 7 APIs, beginning with those APIs oriented toward the language itself, and including Java 7-specific APIs such as the Fork/Join Framework, Objects, JLayer, and NIO.2
Various Java 7 tools, starting with the javac compiler and java application launcher
How to create user interfaces, working with web services, and a whole lot more
The basics of getting started with Android app development

Who this book is for
This book targets the following groups of developers:

Newcomers, skilled (to some degree) in other programming languages but with no previous exposure to Java
Intermediate Java developers, skilled in the fundamentals of Java prior to Java 7 and looking to increase their understanding of Java 7 language/API changes
All developers looking beyond standard Java, who want to leverage Java 7 to create mobile apps via Android
Even advanced Java developers may find a few items of interest

Book Details

Paperback: 920 pages
Publisher: Apress (November 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1430239093
ISBN-13: 978-1430239093

File Size: 20.7 MiB

Book Description

In Essential App Engine, Adriaan de Jonge shows Java developers how to rapidly build complex, productionquality, performance-driven cloud applications with Google App Engine. Using a start-to-finish case study and extensive Java example code, De Jonge covers the entire lifecycle, from application design and data modeling through security, testing, and deployment.

De Jonge introduces breakthrough techniques for creating applications that respond within two seconds, even on cold startup, and allow server responses in hundreds of milliseconds or less throughout the rest of the session. He also demonstrates how to avoid common mistakes that can dramatically reduce cloud application performance and scalability. He thoroughly covers state-of-the-art user interface development and shows how to make the most of Google App Engine’s extensive set of APIs. Coverage includes

Setting up a development environment that makes it easy to continually address performance
Understanding the anatomy of a Google App Engine application
Making the right technical setup and design choices for each new application
Efficiently modeling data for App Engine’s NoSQL data storage
Recognizing when to avoid OR-mapping and pass datastore entities directly to HTML templates
Finding alternatives to frameworks and libraries that impair App Engine performance
Using JavaScript and AJAX on the client side of your cloud applications
Improving browser performance and reducing resource consumption via better use of HTML5 and CSS3
Taking advantage of key App Engine APIs: datastore, blobstore, mail, task scheduling, memory caching, URL retrieval, and messaging
Securing cloud-based Web applications with Google Accounts, OpenID, and OAuth
Improving your cloud development, quality assurance, and deployment processes
Targeting, marketing, and selling cloud solutions, from planning to payment handling

Book Details

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (October 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032174263X
ISBN-13: 978-0321742636

File Size: 4.2 MiB

Book Description

Beginning Java  7 guides you through this language and a huge assortment of platform APIs according to the following table of contents:

Chapter  1: Getting Started with Java
Chapter  2: Discovering Classes and Objects
Chapter  3: Exploring Advanced Language Features
Chapter  4: Touring Language APIs
Chapter  5: Collecting Objects
Chapter  6: Touring Additional Utility APIs
Chapter  7: Creating and Enriching Graphical User Interfaces
Chapter  8: Interacting with Filesystems
Chapter  9: Interacting with Networks and Databases
Chapter 10: Parsing, Creating, and Transforming XML Documents
Chapter 11: Working with Web Services
Chapter 12: Java 7 Meets Android
Appendix A: Solutions to Exercises
Appendix B: Scripting API  and Dynamically Typed Language Support
Appendix C: Odds and Ends
Appendix D: Applications Gallery

Chapter 1 introduces you to Java and begins to cover the Java language by focusing on fundamental concepts such as comments, identifiers, variables, expressions, and statements.

Chapter 2 continues to explore this language by presenting all of its features for working with classes and objects. You learn about features related to class declaration and object creation, encapsulation, information hiding, inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, and garbage collection.

Chapter 3 focuses on the more advanced language features related to nested classes, packages, static imports, exceptions, assertions, annotations, generics, and enums. Additional chapters will introduce you to the few features not covered in Chapters 1 through 3.

Chapter 4 largely moves away from covering language features (although it does introduce class literals and strictfp) while focusing on language-oriented APIs. You learn about Math, StrictMath, Package, Primitive Type Wrapper Classes, Reference, Reflection, String, StringBuffer and StringBuilder, Threading, BigDecimal, and BigInteger in this chapter.

Chapter 5 begins to explore Java’s utility APIs by focusing largely on the Collections Framework. However, it also discusses legacy collection-oriented APIs and how to create your own collections.

Chapter 6 continues to focus on utility APIs by presenting the concurrency utilities along with the Objects and Random classes.

Chapter 7 moves you away from the command-line user interfaces that appear in previous chapters and toward graphical user interfaces. You first learn about the Abstract Window Toolkit foundation, and then explore the Java Foundation Classes in terms of Swing and Java 2D. Appendix C explores Accessibility and Drag and Drop.

Chapter 8 explores filesystem-oriented I/O in terms of the File, RandomAccessFile, stream, and writer/reader classes. New I/O is covered in Appendix C.

Chapter 9 introduces you to Java’s network APIs, such as sockets. It also introduces you to the JDBC API for interacting with databases.

Chapter 10 dives into Java’s XML support by first presenting an introduction to XML (including DTDs and schemas). It next explores the SAX, DOM, StAX, XPath, and XSLT APIs. It even briefly touches on the Validation API. While exploring XPath, you encounter namespace contexts, extension functions and function resolvers, and variables and variable resolvers.

Chapter 11 introduces you to Java’s support for SOAP-based and RESTful web services. In addition to providing you with the basics of these web service categories, Chapter 11 presents some advanced topics, such as working with the SAAJ API to communicate with a SOAP-based web service without having to rely on JAX-WS. You will appreciate having learned about XML in Chapter 10 before diving into this chapter.

Chapter 12 helps you put to use some of the knowledge you’ve gathered in previous chapters by showing you how to use Java to write an Android app’s source code. This chapter introduces you to Android, discusses its architecture, shows you how to install necessary tools, and develops a simple app.

Appendix A presents the solutions to the programming exercises that appear near the end of Chapters 1 through 12.

Appendix B introduces you to Java’s Scripting API along with Java 7′s support for dynamically typed languages.

Appendix C introduces you to additional APIs and architecture topics: Accessibility, ByteArrayOutputStream and ByteArrayInputStream, classloaders, Console, Desktop, Drag and Drop, Dynamic Layout, Extension Mechanism and ServiceLoader, File Partition-Space, File Permissions, Formatter, Image I/O, Internationalization, Java Native Interface, NetworkInterface and InterfaceAddress, New I/O (including NIO.2), PipedOutputStream and PipedInputStream, Preferences, Scanner, Security, Smart Card, Splash Screen, Stream Tokenizer, StringTokenizer, SwingWorker, System Tray, Timer and TimerTask, Tools and the Compiler API, Translucent and Shaped Window, and XML Digital Signature.

Appendix D presents a gallery of significant applications that demonstrate various aspects of Java.

Unfortunately, there are limits to how much knowledge can be crammed into a print book. For this reason, Appendixes A, B, C, and D are not included in this book’s pages. Instead, these appendixes are freely distributed as PDF files. Appendixes A and B are bundled with the book’s associated code file at the Apress website (http://www.apress.com).

Appendixes C and D are bundled with their respective code files on my TutorTutor.ca website at http://tutortutor.ca/cgi-bin/makepage.cgi?/books/bj7. Appendixes C and D are “living documents” in that I’ll occasionally add new material to them. For example, I plan to expand Appendix C by also covering Java Naming and Directory Interface, Java Sound, Remote Method Invocation and Corba, Robot, Runtime and Process, Swing Timer, and many other APIs/architecture topics (including a complete tour of Swing components). Of course, it will take time to write about these topics so don’t expect all of them to appear at once — they will slowly emerge in coming months (although smaller topics such as Robot will emerge much faster).

What you’ll learn

• The entire Java language, including Java 7-specific features such as switch on string, try-with-resources, final rethrow, multicatch, and SafeVarargs
• A huge assortment of Java 7 APIs, beginning with those APIs oriented toward the language itself, and including Java 7-specific APIs such as the Fork/Join Framework, Objects, JLayer, and NIO.2
• Various Java 7 tools, starting with the javac compiler and java application launcher
• How to create user interfaces, working with web services, and a whole lot more
• The basics of getting started with Android app development 

Who this book is for
This book targets the following groups of developers:

• Newcomers, skilled (to some degree) in other programming languages but with no previous exposure to Java
• Intermediate Java developers, skilled in the fundamentals of Java prior to Java 7 and looking to increase their understanding of Java 7 language/API changes
• All developers looking beyond standard Java, who want to leverage Java 7 to create mobile apps via Android
• Even advanced Java developers may find a few items of interest

Book Details

• Paperback: 920 pages
• Publisher: Apress (November 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430239093
• ISBN-13: 978-1430239093