Meet the Authors

This book has been a joint effort by a mother and daughter team.

Eileen Wrigley, full-time Professor of Computer Information Technology courses at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania brings more than 40 years of teaching experience to her writing. She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Dr. Tebring Daly has been teaching full-time in the Computer Science department at Collin College in Plano, Texas since 2006. She has earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of the Pittsburgh and Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Professor Daly has been teaching Java courses for 9 years.

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, the authors would like to convey special thanks to the Alice Software team at Carnegie Mellon University for providing the Alice software to make this text possible. Also, we would like to take this opportunity to thank Electronic Arts, Inc. for providing their rich set of graphics which certainly makes Java and Alice programming more interesting. In addition, we would like to express our gratitude to the National Science Foundation and the Alice ATE grant team members for their continued support. Words cannot express our gratitude to Wanda Dann who was abundantly helpful and offered invaluable assistance, encouragement, and guidance.

A heartfelt thanks to those colleagues that helped with revisions to this book: Bob Benavides (Computer Science Professor at Collin College in Plano, TX), Branden Simbeck (Computer Information Technology Professor at Community College of Allegheny County), and Rod Farkas (Computer Information Technology Professor at Community College of Allegheny County).