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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the Web

2. Introduction to Java Applications

3. Introduction to Classes and Objects

4. Control Statements: Part 1

5. Control Statements: Part 2

6. Methods

7. Arrays

8. Classes and Objects - A Deeper Look

9. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

10. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

11. GUI Components: Part I

12. Graphics and Java2D

13. Exception Handling

14. Files and Streams

15. Recursion

16. Searching and Sorting

17. Data Structures

18. Generics

19. Collections

20. Introduction to Java Applets

21. Multimedia: Applets and Applications

22. GUI Components: Part 2

23. Multithreading

24. Networking

25. Manipulating Databases with JDBC

26. Servlets

27. JavaServer Pages (JSP)

28. Formatted Output

29. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

Appendices

A. Operator Precedence Chart

B. ASCII Character Set

C. Keywords and Reserved Words

D. Primitive Types

E. Number Systems

F. Unicode®

G. Using the Java API Documentation

H. Documenting Classes with Javadoc

I. Bit Manipulation

J. Case Study Code

K. Labeled Break and Continue Statements

Bibliography

Index

About the Author(s)

Dr. Harvey Deitel is one of the world's leading computer science instructors and seminar presenters, and author of more than a dozen books. He worked on the pioneering operating system teams in industry and academia that developed many of the techniques at the heart of operating systems like UNIX®, Windows NT™ and OS/2™.

Paul Deitel has taught Visual Basic, Java, C and C++ at numerous hardware and software companies, including Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Open Environment Corporation, Adra Systems, and Cambridge Technology Partners, and is himself an expert developer.

The Deitels are principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., an international training organization specializing in Visual Basic, Java, C and C++, and object technologies.