• Running example – Revisits a collection of games and puzzle examples in several chapters.

– Introduces students to simple object-oriented programming principles, such as inheritance, randomness, animation, threads, and networking.

– The CyberPet examples from previous editions continue to be available on the Companion Website.

• Chapters 0 (Computers, Objects, and Java) and 1 (Java Program Design and Development) are substantially reorganized and rewritten.

– Reduces the pace with which new concepts are introduced to students.

– Simplifies the treatment of object-oriented (OO) and UML concepts, and moves some of the more challenging OO topics, such as polymorphism, to a new Chapter 7.

• NCoverage of the new Java 5.0 Scanner class – Introduced in Chapter 2 and used to perform simple input operations.

• Independent introductions to both a command-line interface and a graphical user interface (GUI) now provided in a completely rewritten Chapter 4 (Input/Output: Designing the User Interface).

– Enables instructors to choose the type of interface that best suits their teaching style.

– The command-line interface is based on the BufferedReader class and is used throughout the rest of the text.

– The GUI is designed to work with either graphical applications or applets.

– Both approaches are carefully presented to highlight the fundamentals of user-interface design.

– Concludes with an optional section that introduces file I/O using the new Scanner class.

• A new Chapter 7 covers much of the discussion of inheritance and polymorphism that was revisited throughout the first five chapters of the previous edition.

• Optional “graphics track” woven throughout the text.

– Begins with simple examples in Chapters 1 and 2.

– Includes some of the more advanced examples from Chapter 10 of the previous edition.

• Expanded Chapter 15 on Sockets and Networking.

–Covers some of the more advanced Java technologies, including servlets and Java Server Pages.

• Coverage of Data Structures (Ch. 16) now focuses on how to use data structures.

– Makes greater use of Java’s Collection Framework, including the LinkedList and Stack classes and the List interface.

– Expanded to cover some advanced data structures, such as binary trees and hash tables.