Introduces students to these concepts early on, and then expands upon them while building essential programming skills.

Provides students with a comprehensive presentation of both Java and object-oriented programming, with an emphasis on business applications.

Enables students to apply learned concepts to scenarios involving event-driven programming, e-commerce, inventory control, present value, payroll, professional baseball stats, and easy equation solution.

Makes students think about a concept or coding issue that the author has identified as a problem area based on his extensive teaching experience.

Highlights key information related to the details of programming activities.

Gets students started with the integrated development environments called IDEs—in the Sun ONE Studio and JBuilder appendix.

Offers students a Systems Engineering tutorial with UML.

Supplies students with a GUI workshop using Swing components.

Presents information on database connectivity.

Gives students a central theme that encourages them to think critically and apply what they have learned.

Helps students start out on the right programming tract by considering problem definition, solution planning via algorithms, UML class diagrams and good documentation.

Gives students ample opportunity to practice and review learned concepts.

Helps students learn to write more error-free, better running and maintainable programs.