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Java, Java, Java™: Object-Oriented Problem Solving, Third Edition

by Ralph Morelli; Ralph Walde - Trinity College

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Copyright Year: 2006

Publishing Date: 2005/12/22

eText ISBN-10: 0-13-185995-1

eText ISBN-13: 978-0-13-185995-1

Print ISBN-10: 0-13-147434-0

Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-147434-5

Course: Computer Science

Pages: 880

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ABOUT THIS TITLE - TABLE OF CONTENTS

0. Computers, Objects, and Java, 1

0.1. Welcome, 2

0.2. What Is a Computer?, 2

0.3. Networks, the Internet, and the World Wide Web, 3

0.4. Why Study Programming?, 6

0.5. Programming Languages, 6

0.6. Why Java?, 8

0.7. What Is Object-Oriented Programming?, 10

Chapter Summary, 18

1. Java Program Design and Development, 23

1.1. Introduction, 24

1.2. Designing Good Programs, 24

1.3. Designing a Riddle Program, 26

1.4. Java Language Elements, 33

1.5. Editing, Compiling, and Running a Java Program, 48

1.6. From the Java Library: System and PrintStream, 52

Chapter Summary, 54

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 56

2. Objects: Using, Creating, and Defining, 63

2.1. Introduction, 64

2.2. Using String Objects, 64

2.3. Drawing Shapes with a Graphics Object (Optional), 68

2.4. Class Definition, 73

2.5. Case Study: Simulating a Two-Person Game, 78

2.6. From the Java Library: java.util.Scanner, 91

Chapter Summary, 95

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 96

3. Methods: Communicating with Objects, 103

3.1. Introduction, 104

3.2. Passing Information to an Object, 104

3.3. Constructor Methods, 111

3.4. Retrieving Information from an Object, 115

3.5. Passing a Value and Passing a Reference, 118

3.6. Flow of Control: Control Structures, 121

3.7. Testing an Improved OneRowNim, 129

3.8. From the Java Library: java.lang.Object, 133

3.9. Object-Oriented Design: Inheritance and Polymorphism, 135

3.10. Drawing Lines and Defining Graphical Methods (Optional), 136

Chapter Summary, 139

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 140

4. Input/Output: Designing the User Interface, 149

4.1. Introduction, 150

4.2. The User Interface, 150

4.3. A Command-Line Interface, 151

4.4. A Graphical User Interface (GUI), 159

4.5. Case Study: The One-Row Nim Game, 175

4.6. From the Java Library: java.io.File and File Input (Optional), 183

Chapter Summary, 186

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 188

5. Java Data and Operators, 195

5.1. Introduction, 196

5.2. Boolean Data and Operators, 197

5.3. Numeric Data and Operators, 204

5.4. From the Java Library: java.lang.Math, 215

5.5. Numeric Processing Examples, 216

5.6. From the Java Library: java.text.NumberFormat, 228

5.7. Character Data and Operators, 230

5.8. Example: Character Conversions, 233

5.9. Problem Solving = Representation + Action, 236

Chapter Summary, 236

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 238

6. Control Structures, 249

6.1. Introduction, 250

6.2. Flow of Control: Repetition Structures, 250

6.3. Counting Loops, 251

6.4. Example: Car Loan, 260

6.5. Graphics Example: Drawing a Checkerboard, 262

6.6. Conditional Loops, 266

6.7. Example: Computing Averages, 272

6.8. Example: Data Validation, 275

6.9. Principles of Loop Design, 277

6.10. The switch Multiway Selection Structure, 278

6.11. Object-Oriented Design: Structured Programming, 282

Chapter Summary, 290

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 291

7. Strings and String Processing, 305

7.1. Introduction, 306

7.2. String Basics, 306

7.3. Finding Things within a String, 313

7.4. Example: Keyword Search, 315

7.5. From the Java Library: java.lang.StringBuffer, 317

7.6. Retrieving Parts of Strings, 320

7.7. Example: Processing Names and Passwords, 322

7.8. Processing Each Character in a String, 323

7.9. Comparing Strings, 326

7.10. From the Java Library: java.util.StringTokenizer, 332

7.11. Handling Text in a Graphics Context (Optional), 334

Chapter Summary, 340

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 341

8. Inheritance and Polymorphism, 349

8.1. Introduction, 350

8.2. Java’s Inheritance Mechanism, 350

8.3. Abstract Classes, Interfaces, and Polymorphism, 359

8.4. Example: A Toggle Button, 365

8.5. Example: The Cipher Class Hierarchy, 368

8.6. Case Study: A Two-Player Game Hierarchy, 375

8.7. Principles of Object-Oriented Design, 396

Chapter Summary, 397

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 398

9. Arrays and Array Processing, 405

9.1. Introduction, 406

9.2. One-Dimensional Arrays, 406

9.3. Simple Array Examples, 413

9.4. Example: Counting Frequencies of Letters, 416

9.5. Array Algorithms: Sorting, 420

9.6. Array Algorithms: Searching, 426

9.7. Two-Dimensional Arrays, 430

9.9. Object-Oriented Design: Polymorphic Sorting (Optional), 439

9.10. From the Java Library: java.lang.Vector, 443

9.11. CASE STUDY: An N-Player Computer Game, 444

9.12. A GUI-Based Game (Optional Graphics), 452

Chapter Summary, 459

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 460

10. Exceptions: When Things Go Wrong, 471

10.1. Introduction, 472

10.2. Handling Exceptional Conditions, 472

10.3. Java’s Exception Hierarchy, 474

10.4. Handling Exceptions within a Program, 478

10.5. Error Handling and Robust Program Design, 488

10.6. Creating and Throwing Your Own Exceptions, 497

Chapter Summary, 503

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 505

11. Files and Streams: Input/Output Techniques, 511

11.1. Introduction, 512

11.2. Streams and Files, 512

11.3. Case Study: Reading and Writing Text Files, 518

11.4. The File Class, 530

11.5. Example: Reading and Writing Binary Files, 533

11.6. Object Serialization: Reading and Writing Objects, 542

11.7. From the Java Library: javax.swing.JFileChooser, 547

11.8. Using File Data in Programs, 548

Chapter Summary, 551

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 552

12. Recursive Problem Solving, 557

12.1. Introduction, 558

12.2. Recursive Definition, 561

12.3. Recursive String Methods, 564

12.4. Recursive Array Processing, 574

12.5. Example: Drawing (Recursive) Fractals, 580

12.6. Object-Oriented Design: Tail Recursion, 584

12.7. Object-Oriented Design: Recursion or Iteration?, 586

12.8. From the Java Library: javax.swing.JComboBox, 588

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 595

13. Graphical User Interfaces, 603

13.1. Introduction, 604

13.2. Java GUIs: From AWT to Swing, 604

13.3. The Swing Component Set, 607

13.4. Object-Oriented Design: Model-View-Controller Architecture, 607

13.5. The Java Event Model, 609

13.6. Case Study: Designing a Basic GUI, 614

13.7. Containers and Layout Managers, 627

13.8. Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, and Borders, 633

13.9. Menus and Scroll Panes, 641

Chapter Summary, 650

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 651

14. Threads and Concurrent Programming, 657

14.1. Introduction, 658

14.2. What Is a Thread?, 658

14.3. From the Java Library: java.lang.Thread, 662

14.4. Thread States and Life Cycle, 668

14.5. Using Threads to Improve Interface Responsiveness, 670

14.6. Case Study: Cooperating Threads, 678

14.7. Case Study: The Game of Pong, 693

Chapter Summary, 700

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 702

15. Sockets and Networking, 707

15.1. Introduction, 708

15.2. An Overview of Networks, 708

15.3. Using Network Resources from an Applet, 714

15.4. From the Java Library: java.net.URL, 715

15.5. The Slide-Show Applet, 717

15.6. Using Network Resources from an Application, 722

15.7. Client/Server Communication via Sockets, 732

15.8. CASE STUDY: Generic Client/Server Classes, 736

15.9. Playing One-Row Nim Over the Network, 745

15.10. Java Network Security Restrictions, 752

15.11. Java Servlets and Java Server Pages, 753

Chapter Summary, 762

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 763

16. Data Structures: Lists, Stacks, and Queues, 767

16.1. Introduction, 768

16.2. The Linked List Data Structure, 768

16.3. Object-Oriented Design: The List Abstract Data Type (ADT), 780

16.4. The Stack ADT, 785

16.5. The Queue ADT, 788

16.6. From the Java Library: The Java Collections Framework and Generic Types, 791

16.7. Using the Set and Map Interfaces, 795

16.8. The Binary Search Tree Data Structure, 799

Chapter Summary, 801

Solutions to Self-Study Exercises, 803

A. Coding Conventions, 811

Indentation and White Space, 813

Naming Conventions, 813

Use of Braces, 814

File Names and Layout, 815

Statements, 816

Executable Statements, 817

Preconditions and Postconditions, 818

Sample Programs, 818

B. The Java Development Kit, 819

The Java Compiler: javac, 819

The Java Interpreter: java, 821

The appletviewer, 821

The Java Archiver jar Tool, 825

The Java Documentation Tool: javadoc, 827

C. The ASCII and Unicode Character Sets, 828

D. Java Keywords, 829

E. Operator Precedence Hierarchy, 830

F. Java Inner Classes, 832

What Are Inner Classes?, 832

Nested Top-Level Versus Member Classes, 832

Local and Anonymous Inner Classes, 834

G. Java Autoboxing and Enumeration, 837

Autoboxing and Unboxing, 837

Enumeration, 838

H. Java and UML Resources, 841

Reference Books, 841

Online References, 841

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