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David Barnes
Lecturer
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Publications
My publications are available from the Computer Science department publications repository.
Recent Books
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The fifth edition of Objects First with Java was published in 2012. ISBN-13 for the US Edition is 978-013-249266-9 and for the UK Edition is ISBN 978-013-283554-1. Translations of earlier editions are available in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portugese and Spanish. |
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Introduction to Modeling for Biosciences was published by Springer in August 2010. It provides a broad overview of the most important techniques used to model biological systems The ISBN is 978-1-84996-325-1. |
| This is co-authored with Michael Kölling who is creator of the BlueJ Interactive Java Environment. | This is co-authored with Dominique Chu. | ||
Research Interests
I belong to the following research groups:
My research interests include the teaching of introductory programming, software testing and biological modelling. I am currently collaborating with staff in the School of Biosciences developing software to help them visualise NMR data.Teaching
I am heavily involved in the teaching of introductory, object-oriented programming at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I also teach networking protocols as part of a postgraduate Computer Security module.
I have done a lot of work with local schools, introducing
students at Key Stage 3 to programming through the use of LEGO Mindstorms kits
as part of the 'control' element of the ICT curriculum.
I have prepared some ROBOLAB teaching materials
to support this work.
I have also looked at the use of Java with the LEGO RCX
brick.
Personal Information
I am married to Helen and we have four adult children. My wife and I are members of Herne Bay Baptist Church where we contribute to the worship by playing guitar (me) and recorder (Helen). All of my children and I have variously dabbled with rock climbing. With two of my close friends, Chris and Joe, I have recently spent some fun times cycling in the Ardennes region of Belgium, backpacking in Norway and a walking tour between youth hostels in Germany's Harz National Park - we have very understanding families!
I am interested in researching my family history, and I have a particular interest in gathering information on 92 Squadron RAF in which my father was a member of the ground crew.
I am an occasional collector of picture postcards. I used to play chess seriously, captaining Herne Bay Chess Club in the 1995 and 1996 seasons. Before stopping to concentrate on my first book, I had a 1998 BCF grading of 145. In the 1996-97 season I shared joint first place in the Lohmann Cup competition for the individual Thanet area champion. Since that break, I haven't managed to get back into serious chess, having discovered rock climbing as an alternative (but equally cerebal?) hobby. I wrote and maintain the pgn-extract program for manipulating chess games written in the Portable Game Notation (PGN).