Introduction to Programming Using Java

Features:

• All code is revised and tested to be compatible with Java 2 (and Java 1.1)
• Contains optional supplements covering graphical user interfaces (GUIs) at the end of each chapter
• Includes a chapter with three robust applications that use the text?s class design procedure and allow students to tie the material together

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Jumping Into Java

Section 1.1: Computers and programs
Section 1.2: Programs and models
Section 1.3: Objects, Behavior and Classes
Section 1.4: Our First Object A Monitor
Section 1.5: Sending a Message to the System.out Object
Section 1.6: A Java program Java Interlude: Identifiers
Section 1.7: Mechanics
Section 1.8: Time
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: Introduction

Chapter 2: Using Objects

Section 2.1: Introduction
Section 2.2: Using PrintStream Objects
Section 2.3: Java Interlude: References, Methods and Messages
Section 2.4: The String Class
Section 2.5: Methods, arguments and return-values
Section 2.6: Reference Variables
Java Interlude: variables and assignment
Section 2.7: Using String Methods
Java Interlude
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: Web Pages and HTML

Chapter 3: Using Classes

Section 3.1: Introduction
Section 3.2: Creating Objects
Java Interlude
Section 3.3: Disk Files
Section 3.4: Writing Output to Files
Section 3.5: Input: an overview
Section 3.6: Input: The Keyboard
Section 3.7: Interactive Input/Output
Section 3.8: Input: Disk Files
Section 3.9: Network Computing: An Introduction
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: Applets

Chapter 4: Defining Classes

Section 4.1: Introduction
Section 4.2: Class Definitions
Section 4.3: Designing Classes
Section 4.4: Specifying an InteractiveIO Class
Section 4.5: Implementing the InteractiveIO Class
Section 4.6: Improve the implementation but don't touch the interface!
Java Interlude: variables, declarations and the return statement
Section 4.7: Specifying a None Class
Section 4.8: Implementing the None Class
Section 4.9: State and Behavior
Section 4.10: Outputting Objects: Revisiting the Name Class (1)
Section 4.11: Inputting Objects: Revisiting the Name Class (2) Section 4.12: Our First Program
Revisited
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: Applets, Painting and Creating Controls

Chapter 5: The Class Design Process Method Implementation and Numerical Processing

Section 5.1: Introduction
Section 5.2: Designing Classes: An Overview
Section 5.3: Numeric Processing: The int data type
Section 5.4: Collecting Tolls: An Example<<br> Java Interlude: primitive data types, int, expressions and operators
Another Java Interlude: int methods and int input
Section 5.5: Other Integer Types
Section 5.6: Modeling the Numbers of Measurement
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: Drawing Text

Chapter 6: Controlling Behavior-Conditional Execution

Section 6.1: Introduction
Section 6.2: Conditional execution- the if Statement
Section 6.3: Employee Payroll: An Example
Java Interlude: The if Statement
Section 6.4: Input Methods Revisited: Testing for End of Input
Section 6.5: Type boolean and boolean-valued expressions
Section 6.6: A Time class
Java Interlude: boolean, Compound Conditionals, Logical Operators
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: Responding to Controls:Event-handling
GUI Supplement II: Bringing the Calculator to Life

Chapter 7: Verifying Object Behavior

Section 7.1: Introduction
Section 7.2: Categories of Errors
Section 7.3: Test Drivers
Section 7.4 Automatic Testing
Section 7.5: What to Test and How to Test It
Section 7.6: Debugging Techniques
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises

Chapter 8: Working with Multiple Objects

Section 8.1: Introduction
Section 8.2: Processing Multiple Objects
Section 8.3: Loop Patterns
Section 8.4: The Impact of Loops on Testing
Section 8.5: A Radio Station?s Song library
Section 8.6: Maintaining Multiple Values
Section 8.7: Vector-A Simple Collection Class
Section 8.8: Moving Through a Vector-Enumerations
Section 8.9: Revisiting the SongLibrary class
Java Interlude: Primitive Types and Collections; Revisiting the Wrapper Classes
Section 8.10: An Example: Determing a Student?s Relative Performance
Section 8.11: Sets
Java Interlude: Class Object Methods
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
GUI Supplement: List, Checkbox, CheckboxGroup

Chapter 9: Iteration

Section 9.1: Introduction
Section 9.2: Designing Loops
Section 9.3: A Simple Example
Section 9.4: Revisiting the loop patterns of Chapter 7
Section 9.5: Variations on the Payroll Loop
Section 9.6: More Loop Patterns: Counters, Accumulators, Extremes
Section 9.7: Java Interlude: The for loop; short-circuits; break and continue
Section 9.8: A Loop Design Strategy: Refining an Imperfect Solution
Section 9.9: The Radio Station's Play Schedule
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement Threads

Chapter 10: Organizing Objects

Section 10.1: Indexing
Section 10.2: The Limitations of Enumerations
Section 10.3: Searching
Section 10.4: Self-Organizing Vectors
Java Interlude
Section 10.5: Finding Extremes
Section 10.6: Binary Search
Section 10.7: Sorting
Section 10.8: Introducing Arrays
Section 10.9: Vectors and Arrays
Section 10.10: Command-line Arguments
Section 10.11: Strings and Indices
Summary
Questions for Review
Terminology
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: The Game of Life

Chapter11: Recursion

Section 11.1: Introduction
Section 11.2: Example: Exponentiation
Section 11.3: How to Design a Recursive Method
Section 11.4: Recursive methods: under the hood
Section 11.5: Finding A Square Root
Section 11.6: Recursion with Vectors, Arrays and Strings
Section 11.7: Permutations
Section 11.8: Recursion and Iteration; Trade-offs
Summary
Questions for Review
Terminology
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: The Towers of Hanoi

Chapter 12: Examples

Section 12.1: Introduction
Section 12.2: The LOGO Turtle
Section 12.3: Web Site Maintenance
Section 12.4: The Game of Mancala
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement A Graphical Interface for Mancala

Chapter 13: Extending Class Behavior

Section 13.1: Introduction
Section 13.2: Extending classes-Inheritance I
Section 13.3: A Better BufferedReader
Section 13.4: Adding State to the Subclass; Accessing the Superclass's State
Section 13.5: Revisiting the Name Class-Adding Additional State
Java Interlude: Inheritance
Section 13.6: Overriding Methods
Java Interlude: Polymorphism
Section 13.7: Factoring out Common Behavior-Inheritance II
Section 13.8: Abstract methods and classes
Section 13.9: Specifying Common Behavior-Interfaces
Section 13.10: A Generic Sorting Method
Summary
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
GUI Supplement: The AWT Hierarchy

Chapter 14: Exceptions

Section 14.1: Expect the Unexpected
Section 14.2: Encountering the Unexpected
Java Interlude: The Exception Class
Section 14.3: Handling the Unexpected
Section 14.4: Responsibility for the Unexpected
Section 14.5: Exceptions Are Not Always Errors
Study Aid: Terminology Review
Questions for Review
Further Exercises
Net Supplement Client-Server Programming
Java Clients

Appendix A: Glossary of All Terms

Appendix B: Editing, Compiling and Running Java Programs

Appendix C: Annotated List of Java Classes,Interfaces, Methods, Variables and Constants Used in this Text

Appendix D: Exercises for the GUI