Harvey M. Deitel

This is an excellent introduction to programming book. In undergraduate, I was an astrophysics major who needed to write computer programs as part of my work on a NASA student project. I used this book to teach myself computer programming. Later, while teaching introduction to computer programming as a graduate student in computer sciences, I drew examples from this text to supplement my instruction. (Graduate students who taught classes were told which textbook to use, but I considered the one we were using to be overly simplistic because it delayed teaching objects). This is a great book for teaching object oriented programming languages such as Java.… (more)