Synopses & Reviews
Featuring a wealth of practical, engineering-oriented examples and applications, this book teaches the fundamentals of Java with a gradual refinement of programming skills from a procedural to an object orientation.
About the Author
Gary J. Bronson is a Professor of Information Systems at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), where he was voted Teacher of the Year. He has worked at Lockheed Electronics, Bell Laboratories, and a number of Wall Street financial firms. He has also authored several successful programming textbooks on C, C++, and Java.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Fundamentals 1. Getting Started 2. Values, Variables, and Operations 3. Assignment and Interactive Input 4. Selection 5. Repetition 6. General-Purpose Methods Part 2: Array and String Deference Types 7. Arrays 8. Multi-Dimensional Arrays 9. Strings and Characters Part 3: Creating Classes 10. Introduction to Classes 11. Additional Class Capabilities Part 4: Creating Swing-Based GUIs 12. Visual Programming Basics 13. Additional Components and Event Handlers Part 5: Additional Programming Topics 14. File I/O 15. Numerical Methods 16. Additional Capabilities Appendices A: Operator Precedence Table B: UNICODE Character Codes C: Compiling and Executing a Java Program D: Specifying Locale E: Creating Leading Spaces F: Creating and Using Packages G: A Keyboard Input Class H: Applets I: Real Number Storage J: Selected Odd-Numbered Exercise Solutions