Alan Mycroft

ALAN MYCROFT is professor of computing in the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University, where he has been a faculty member since 1984. He’s also a fellow at Robinson College, a co-founder of the European Association for Programming Languages and Systems, and a co-founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He has degrees in Mathematics (Cambridge) and Computer Science (Edinburgh). He’s the author of about 100 research papers and has supervised more than 20 PhD theses. His research centers on programming languages and their semantics, optimization, and implementation. He maintains strong industrial links, having worked at AT&T Laboratories and Intel Research during academic leave, as well as spinning out Codemist Ltd., which built the original ARM C compiler under the Norcroft name.

books by Alan Mycroft

Modern Java in Action
  • September 2018
  • ISBN 9781617293566
  • 592 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Java

Modern Java in Action connects new features of the Java language with their practical applications. Using crystal-clear examples and careful attention to detail, this book respects your time. It will help you expand your existing knowledge of core Java as you master modern additions like the Streams API and the Java Module System, explore new approaches to concurrency, and learn how functional concepts can help you write code that’s easier to read and maintain.

Java 8 in Action
  • August 2014
  • ISBN 9781617291999
  • 424 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Programming Languages and Styles / Functional Programming

Every new version of Java is important, but Java 8 is a game changer. Java 8 in Action is a clearly written guide to the new features of Java 8. It begins with a practical introduction to lambdas, using real-world Java code. Next, it covers the new Streams API and shows how you can use it to make collection-based code radically easier to understand and maintain. It also explains other major Java 8 features including default methods, Optional, CompletableFuture, and the new Date and Time API.