Book excerpt: S Chand's "ICSE Computer Applications" is designed to be in sync with the latest guidelines of the Council. The curriculum provides the opportunity for the students to get trained with coding programs using Java, with more focus on topics such as Objects and Classes with real life examples, User-defined Methods, Constructors, Library Classes, Encapsulation, Arrays and String Handling. Detailed explanation of the various concepts in simple and easy language helps students understand them better.