Guide to Java: A Concise Introduction to Programming

✍ Scribed by James T. Streib, Takako Soma (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a focused and accessible primer on the fundamentals of Java programming, with extensive use of examples and hands-on exercises. Topics and features: provides an introduction to variables, input/output and arithmetic operations describes objects and contour diagrams, explains selection structures, and demonstrates how iteration structures work discusses object-oriented concepts such as overloading and classes methods, and introduces string variables and processing illustrates arrays and array processing and examines recursion explores inheritance and polymorphism and investigates elementary files presents a primer on graphical input/output, discusses elementary exception processing, and presents the basics of Javadoc includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with selected answers in an appendix and a glossary of key terms provides additional supplementary information at an associated website.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Variables, Input/Output, and Arithmetic....Pages 1-38
Objects: An Introduction....Pages 39-67
Selection Structures....Pages 69-106
Iteration Structures....Pages 107-141
Objects: Revisited....Pages 143-184
Strings....Pages 185-202
Arrays....Pages 203-243
Recursion....Pages 245-266
Objects: Inheritance and Polymorphism....Pages 267-291
Elementary File Input and Output....Pages 293-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-358

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters