Barry Cornelius, University of Durham, Durham

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 704 pp

ISBN-10:	0201711079
ISBN-13:	9780201711073

Our Price: £52.99
Status: Instock
Published: 06 Mar 2001

Understanding Java provides a thorough introduction to the Java programing language and also imparts an understanding of the way things are in Java.The overall aims of Understanding Java by Barry Cornelius are to introduce the main aspects of programming, to explain the constructs available in the Java programming language and to create an appropriate foundation for the construction of large programs. Barry Cornelius has taught courses in Java at the University of Durham since 1996. This book is based on material taught by the author to students that are new to programming.

1. Examining The Structure Of Java Programs
2. Constructing Simple Programs
3. Using Objects And Classes From Java's Core Apis
4. Reading Values From The Keyboard
5. Using Arithmetic Expressions To Represent Formulae
6. Using If Statements To Make Decisions
7. Using For Statements To Repeat Statements
8. Using Methods To Organize Programs
9. Using Other Forms Of Control Statements
10. Reading From And Writing To Files
11. Using Interfaces And Classes To Produce New Types
12. Looking At Other Examples Of Interfaces And Classes
13. Providing A GUI: Textfields And Buttons
14. Manipulating Collections: Lists, Queues And Stacks
15. Using An Array To Represent A Collection Of Values
16. Decoupling The Model From The User Interface
17. Using Enumerations, Sets And Maps
18. Providing A GUI: Menus And Internal Frames
19. Deriving A Class From Another Class
20. Producing Applets (For Use With The WWW)
21. Looking Briefly At Other Topics
Appendices
A. Obtaining The Java 2 SDK And An Appropriate Text Editor
B. Compiling And Executing Programs Using The Java 2 SDK
C. Producing Javadoc Documentation
References
Indexes

•  Teaches interface declarations at the same time as class declarations
• Suggests that each class should have methods called equals, hashCode, compareTo (if appropriate), toString and a constructor for cloning.
•  Demonstrates how to provide a Java program with user interfaces involving components such as buttons, textfields, dialog boxes and menus (using the Swing API).
• Uses the Collections API in preference to teaching the student to implement the code for the classic data structures.
• Uses the www pages that document the Core APIs.
•  Each chapter of the book ends with some useful tips for programming and debugging, and a section entitled "curios, controversies and cover-ups".
•  As well as containing the code of all the examples that appear in the book, the book's website at booksites.net/cornelius contains the code of a www browser written in Java and a set of suggested solutions to some of the exercises.