First on the market to cover Forte, this text is aided by Sun's Forte IDE for Java to facilitate developing and managing Java programs. The text covers all subjects required in the Level 1 Java Certification Exam—fundamentals of programming (including primitive data types, control statements, methods, and arrays); object-oriented programming; graphics programming; exception handling; internalization; multithreading; multimedia; I/O; networking; and Java data structures. With this text, students will gain core Java knowledge that is needed to develop useful projects.