Bruce Eckel

Bruce Eckel (born July 8, 1957 ) is an American computer scientist , consultant and author.

Life

Eckel has written over 150 articles and six books. He holds a BS in Applied Physics from the University of California and a Masters in Computer Engineering from California Polytechnic State University . He was a founding member of the ANSI / ISO C ++ committee. Award-winning, critics rate his books Thinking in Java and Thinking in C ++ about Java and C ++ as standard works in the field.

He has written columns for Web Techniques magazine, Unix review , Micro Cornucopia, and C ++ Report magazines . Additional articles have been published in the Windows Tech Journal , The C ++ Journal, and PC Techniques .

Publications

• Thinking in Java , Prentice Hall PTR, 2006, ISBN 0131872486
• Thinking in C ++, Volume 1: Introduction to Standard C ++ , Prentice Hall, 2000, ISBN 0139798099
• Thinking in C ++, Volume 2: Practical Programming , Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0130353132
• Thinking in Python , 2001, online book (English)
• Thinking in Enterprise Java , 2003, draft: online version (English)
• Thinking in Patterns , 2003, draft: online version (English)
• Atomic Scala , 2013

Awards

• 1995 - Software Development Jolt Award: Best Book Published for Thinking in C ++
• 2002 - Software Development Jolt Award: Best Book Published for Thinking in Java
• 2002 - Java World Reader's Choice Award: Thinking in Java
• 2002 - Java World Editor's Choice Award: Thinking in Java

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruce Eckel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official site of Bruce Eckel (English)
• Bruce Eckel online books