Introduction to Java programming

This text adopts the ”fundamentals-first” strategy, proceeding at a steady pace through all the necessary and important basic concepts, and building up to object-oriented. programming. Students then move to using the object-oriented approach to build GUI applications and applets with exception handling, I/O, data structures, internationalization, multithreading, multimedia, and networking. Every chapter has been completely revised, malting for concise reading that is engaging, and at the same tune, easy to understand. Suited for beginning and advanced students from two-semester first-year programming courses to one-semester courses in Java as a second language. This book has also been used in short training courses for experienced programmers.KEY FEATURES Uses hands-on examples of basic features. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of programming. Contains in-depth treatment of object-oriented programming. Includes extensive examples of GUI programming. Covers advanced Java topics. Incorporates coverage of all the subjects required for the Level 1 Java Certification Exam. Offers more than 600 self-test questions from the author’s online interactive website. NEW Improved presentation of primitive data types, expressions, loops, methods, and arrays. The standard JOptionPane class replaces MyInput. Object-Oriented Programming is expanded into four chapters to provide an in-depth introduction. Strings are given a separate chapter. Object-Oriented Software Development introduces the UML, approach and fosters the concept of reusable components. Brand new chapter on Java Data Structures introduces Java collections framework. New organization provides flexible ordering of chapters so instructors can easily customize the book. Several new appendices offer readers additional background information and supplemental material. Problem-solving steps are described in the examples. New examples have been added on GUI programming, threads, and I/O. Author website link available at www.prenhall.com/liang/intro4e.html