Java 5: Objects First

• The text is very student-friendly, written in a engaging and conversational style.
• The text is heavily oriented towards programs and exercises.  221 programs and 777 exercises can be found throughout!
• The text is objects-first.  Objects are used in illustrating later programming constructs such as loops and arrays.
• GUI is presented as an optional track through the text.
• Solutions to the exercises are available to instructors.
• “Hold Your Horses!” boxes anticipate student queries about features which will be introduced in a little while.
• “Try it Out!” boxes encourage students to write short programs to see how Java handles a particular new situation.
• "Exercise Icons" point students to the relevant end-of-chapter exercises.
• "Pause & Think" sections ask students how Java might handle a situation.  They are asked to form an opinion before reading on.
• New terminology is identified and defined in marginal notes and summarized at the end of each chapter.

Table of Contents

      Preface for the Instructor

      Preface for the Student

1.   Introduction

2.   Classes and Objects

3.   Using Predefined Classes and Objects

4.   Using Class String

5.   Output and Input

6.   Defining New Classes

7.   Integer Datatypes

8.   boolean

9.   char

10.  Floating-point Datatypes

11.  Conditional Execution

12.  Testing, Coding and Debugging

13.  Loops and Files

14.  Arrays

15.  Interfaces and Polymorphism

16.  Inheritance and Class Hierarchies

17.  Exceptions

18.  Recursion

19.  Numerical and Other Algorithms

Appendix 1 — Style Sheet
Appendix 2 — Reserved Words
Appendix 3 — Printable Characters
Appendix 4 — Operator Precedence
Appendix 5 — Increment and Decrement Operators
Appendix 6 — Conditional Operator -- ? :
Appendix 7 — Enhanced for Loop
Appendix 8 — vararg — Variable Length Argument Lists
Appendix 9 — Enumerated Types — enum
Appendix 10 — ArrayList
Appendix 11 — Wrappers, Boxing, Unboxing
Appendix 12 — javadoc

This text is appropriate for the undergradute,  CS1 course.   First Course in Programming using the Java Langugage

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