Contents

The book has 13 chapters in four parts. See Chapter Topics for the chapter sequence.

Part I. Foundations

• Introduction to Java

• Variables and Data Types

• Strings

• Control Flow

• Methods

Part II. Object-Oriented Programming

• Classes and Objects

• Inheritance

• Interfaces and Abstraction

Part III. Data Structures

• Arrays

• Collections

Part IV. Applied Java

• Exceptions and Testing

• Files and I/O

• GUI Programming