Java Programming for Beginners by Lassoff, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions

Getting Started with Java

What is Java?

Features of Java Java applications

Setting up your development environment

Installing JDK Installing the NetBeans IDE Writing our first Java program

Creating a new project Creating a Java class Writing the code

Java comments The main() function Printing a string Java syntax Executing our program

How to interpret errors detected by NetBeans?

The code completion feature

Summary

Understanding Typed Variables

Integer variables

The solution of variables Memory allocation for integer variables

Floating point variables

Behavior difference between integer and float data types Type casting The double data type

The Math class library

Using the pow() function Importing class libraries

Char variables Strings

The concatenation operator The toUpperCase() function The replace() function Escape sequences

Summary

Branching

Understanding if statements

Conditional statements

Using if statements Using else statements

Complex conditionals

The contains function Complex conditional statements The boolean variable

Switch, case, and break

Program using switch, case, and break

While and do...while loops

While loops The do...while loops

For loops Summary

Data Structures

Working with arrays

Declaring and initializing an array Assigning values to an array Array example in NetBeans

Creating an array Creating a for loop Printing the alphabet

Default initialization of arrays in Java

Multidimensional arrays

A multidimensional array example in NetBeans

Creating a multidimensional array Using nested loops for multidimensional arrays Assigning different colors to our chessboard Printing the chessboard

ArrayLists

An ArrayList example in NetBeans

Creating an ArrayList Getting user input Printing the ArrayList of user input Giving control to the user Analyzing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

Maps

Creating a Map Assigning values to our Map Fetching information from our Map

Summary

Functions

The basics of Java functions Methods

Temperature conversion program

Setting up the control flow Exploring separate cases - C, K, and F

Celsius type Kelvin type Fahrenheit type

Executing the first part of the program Executing the second part of the program Final touch to the program

Advanced Java functions Operating java variables

Using variables in the program

Understanding passing parameters

Summary

Modeling with Object-Oriented Java

Creating classes and objects

Creating custom classes

Creating member variables Creating member functions

Creating constructors

Types of constructors

Summary

More Object-Oriented Java

Inheritance

Creating a superclass The is-a relationship

Overriding Data structure The abstract method The protected method

Abstract Summary

Useful Java Classes

The Calendar class

Subclasses of Calendar Fetching the current day, month, and year How Calendar works

String functionality

String literals versus String objects String functions

The replace() function The format() function

Exceptions

Analyzing the console exception messages Handling exceptions

The try and catch blocks The finally block

The Object class

Overriding the equals() method Other Object methods

Primitive classes Summary

File Input and Output

Writing data to files

The FileWriter class

Relieving resources using the close() method

The BufferedWriter class

Reading data from files

The FileReader and BufferedReader class

The Serializable class

Serializing an object Deserializing an object

Summary

Basic GUI Development

Swing GUIs

The JFrame class

Setting the size of our window Adding a label Closing our application

The SwingUtilities class

A visual GUI editor tool – palette

How palette works

Event handling

Adding a button Adding functionality to our button

Summary

XML

Reading XML data Parsing XML data

Accessing Jane's XML element Printing Jane's car details

Writing XML data

Java code to write XML data Modifying XML data

Summary

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