Bøker av John Latham

A SCHOOL IN COLOMBIA IS IN SHOCK... MYSTERY SURROUNDS A TRAGIC LIFE-CHANGING EVENT AT TALAQUI ACADEMY.

As a child, I loved reading stories that transported me to countries and places that were different from those of my upbringing in Britain. Books such as The Coral Island and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer fired my imagination.

Updated and revised September 2018.At last -- a first programming in Java course that is truly aimed at students who have not programmed before! (It has an entry point for those who have.) * Using neither the confusing `objects first' approach, nor the confidence destroying `objects late' ordering, students are instead taken gently from their natural `task oriented' view of problem solving, through the basics of programming and then soon onto objects. * Every programming and Java concept is introduced, Just in Time, in the context of one of more than a hundred program examples, so motivation is never lacking. Even when objects are introduced, readers immediately see their benefit, and thus happily augment their `task oriented' view with the `object oriented' one. * Programming skill, being at least 51% confidence, is built in manageable layers by undertaking over one hundred pieces of coursework. * Other learning enhancing aspects include coffee time questions, end of chapter collected concepts, no use of non-standard library code, and independence of any confidence-entrapping learning environment. John Latham has been teaching first programming since 1982 using various languages and styles, and this course has been running since 2004 at The University of Manchester, UK.

Presents a practical, user-friendly introduction to object-oriented programming with Java. With programming examples that demonstrate theory in a practical setting, as well as slides, source code and tips online, this guide to Java programming keeps pace with a reader's growing skill level and interest.

A John Latham poem is a like a precipitation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallises around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them is unique each time. Passionate, satirical, mysterious, the poems in his sixth collection capture the vibrancy of a childhood that still bewitches him half a century later, alongside the cruel betrayals of old age, and the fresh possibilities bound up in each new encounter. Latham's training as a physicist may bring a cosmic perspective to the landscapes he maps out, but they are also profoundly local. The wonders of the universe are no more mysterious to him than the simple oddity of other humans. And as the title poem demonstrates, every last atom of detail, even the mistakes of a makeshift translation, have the capacity to beguile. Having trained as a physicist specialising in the science of cloud formation and then later emerged as one of the more curious voices in British poetry, John Latham is not a writer you're ever likely to forget. Merging the intricate beauties of his scientific perspective with a highly playful treatment of memory, landscape, and the imagination, Latham's poems are masterpieces of British surrealism.