Newly updated for JDK 5.0, best-selling author Gary J. Bronson's text provides students with a solid but gentle introduction to object-oriented Java programming in the first chapter. Objects and classes are defined in the context of a practical recipe analogy, ensuring that students will be able to grasp these challenging topics. Students will emerge from this text with the ability to code basic CS1 Java programming problems within a class-centered environment.

• Creating and Using Java Classes
  • Introduction
  • Creating Classes
  • Developing Class Methods
• Methods and Statements
  • Input and Formatting Class Methods
  • Selection
  • Repetition
• Reference and Collection Data Types
  • Strings and Characters
  • Collections: Arrays
• Creating Swing-Based GUIs
  • Visual Programming Basics
  • Additional Components and Event Handlers
• Additional Programming Topics
  • Additional Class Capabilities
  • Files
  • Collections: List Creation and Maintenance
  • Additional Capabilities
• Appendices
  • A: Operator Precedence Table
  • B: Unicode Character Set
  • C: Compiling and Running a Java Program
  • D: Obtaining Locales
  • E: Creating Leading Spaces
  • F: Creating and Using Packages
  • G: A Keyboard Input Class
  • H: Applets
  • I: Real Number Storage
  • J: Solutions and Source Code