Readings from Programming with Java

June Jamrich Parsons is an educator, digital book pioneer, co-author of Texty and McGuffey award-winning textbooks and a TAA fellow. She co-developed the first commercially successful multimedia, interactive digital textbook that established the standard for platforms now being developed by numerous educational publishers. Her career includes extensive classroom teaching, product design for eCourseware, textbook authoring for Course Technology and Cengage, creative strategist for MediaTechnics Corporation and director of content for Veative Virtual Reality Labs. She holds a Ph.D. in instructional technology, C.C.P. (Certified Computing Professional) certification and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.Dr. Kyla McMullen earned her B.S. in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and her M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. She is currently a tenure-track faculty member at the University of Florida's Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering Department. Dr. McMullen's research interests are in the perception, application and development of 3D audio technologies. In this line of research, sounds are digitally filtered so that when they are played over headphones, the listener perceives the sound as being emitted from a specific location in their own physical space, much like surround sound over headphones. Dr. McMullen is using this research to create realistic virtual environments, enhance data sonification, augment assistive technologies for persons with visual impairments and decrease the cognitive load in multimodal systems. She recently received the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award to further support her research in this area.Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) A. Matthews is an assistant professor of computer science at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Dr. Matthews received her B.S. in computer science at Western Washington University, her M.S. in computer science at Clemson University and her Ph.D. in human-centered computing at the University of Florida.