Absolute Java

For courses in computer programming and engineering.

Beginner to Intermediate Programming in Java

This book is designed to serve as a textbook and reference for programming in the Java language. Although it does include programming techniques, it is organised around the features of the Java language rather than any particular curriculum of programming techniques. The main audience is undergraduate students who have not had extensive programming experience with the Java language.

The introductory chapters are written at a level that is accessible to beginners, while the boxed sections of those chapters serve to quickly introduce more experienced programmers to basic Java syntax. Later chapters are still designed to be accessible, but are written at a level suitable for students who have progressed to these more advanced topics.

• 1: GETTING STARTED
• 2: CONSOLE INPUT AND OUTPUT
• 3: FLOW OF CONTROL
• 4: DEFINING CLASSES I
• 5: DEFINING CLASSES II
• 6: ARRAYS
• 7: INHERITANCE
• 8 POLYMORPHISM AND ABSTRACT CLASSES
• 9: EXCEPTION HANDLING
• 10: FILE I/O
• 11: RECURSION
• 12: UML AND PATTERNS
• 13: INTERFACES AND INNER CLASSES
• 14: GENERICS AND THE ArrayList CLASS
• 15: LINKED DATA STRUCTURES
• 16: COLLECTIONS, MAPS AND ITERATORS
• 17: SWING I
• 18: SWING II
• 19: JAVA NEVER ENDS
• 20: APPLETS AND HTML
• Appendix 1 KEYWORDS
• Appendix 2 PRECEDENCE AND ASSOCIATIVITY RULES
• Appendix 3 ASCII CHARACTER SET
• Appendix 4 FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS FOR printf
• Appendix 5 SUMMARY OF CLASSES AND INTERFACES
• INDEX