Essential Java for Scientists and Engineers

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Summary: Emphasis is not on Java per se
Review: This book has some of the flavour of how many scientists and engineers learnt to program Fortran in earlier years. Then, Fortran was the main language for numerically intensive applications. (Go back far enough and it was the only language.) So Fortran was taught from that perspective.

Likewise with this book. The emphasis is from the point of view of a user who is NOT a computer scientist. Rather, she hails from some other subject, and needs to know enough of Java to apply it to her problems. A very utilitarian approach. Java purists might bewail this, but remember, not everyone can be, or desires to be, a full time programmer.

If you are a physical science major (especially in physics), or an engineering student, then you should have the ideal background for this book.