Introduction to Java Programming : Comprehensive Version

by Liang, Y. Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780132221580
• ISBN10: 0132221586
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Programming is, above all, problem solving. This book will help students thoroughly understand real-world programming problems - and solve those problems quickly and efficiently, using Java's sophisticated design and coding facilities.

Author Biography

Y. Daniel Liang is currently Yamacraw Professor of Software Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, GA.

Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Programming	p. 1
Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Java	p. 3
Introduction	p. 4
What Is a Computer?	p. 4
Programs	p. 7
Operating Systems	p. 10
(Optional) Number Systems	p. 11
Java, the World Wide Web, and Beyond	p. 14
The Java Language Specification, API, JDK, and IDE	p. 16
A Simple Java Program	p. 17
Creating, Compiling, and Executing a Java Program	p. 18
Anatomy of a Java Program	p. 20
Displaying Text in a Message Dialog Box	p. 22
Primitive Data Types and Operations	p. 27
Introduction	p. 28
Writing Simple Programs	p. 28
Identifiers	p. 30
Variables	p. 31
Assignment Statements and Assignment Expressions	p. 32
Constants	p. 33
Numeric Data Types and Operations	p. 34
Numeric Type Conversions	p. 40
Character Data Type and Operations	p. 41
The String Type	p. 44
Getting Input from Input Dialogs	p. 45
Case Studies	p. 46
Getting Input from the Console	p. 52
Programming Style and Documentation	p. 55
Programming Errors	p. 57
Debugging	p. 58
Selection Statements	p. 67
Introduction	p. 68
Boolean Data Type and Operations	p. 68
If Statements	p. 73
Switch Statements	p. 81
Conditional Expressions	p. 83
Formatting Console Output and Strings	p. 84
Operator Precedence and Associativity	p. 86
Operand Evaluation Order	p. 87
Loops	p. 95
Introduction	p. 96
The while Loop	p. 96
The do-while Loop	p. 100
The for Loop	p. 102
Which Loop to Use?	p. 104
Nested Loops	p. 105
Minimizing Numerical Errors	p. 106
Case Studies	p. 108
Keywords break and continue	p. 113
Methods	p. 129
Introduction	p. 130
Creating a Method	p. 130
Calling a Method	p. 131
Void Method Example	p. 134
Passing Parameters by Values	p. 135
Overloading Methods	p. 137
Case Study: Computing Taxes with Methods	p. 139
The Scope of Variables	p. 141
The Math Class	p. 142
Case Study: Generating Random Characters	p. 145
Method Abstraction and Stepwise Refinement	p. 146
(Optional) Packages	p. 154
Arrays	p. 169
Introduction	p. 170
Array Basics	p. 170
Copying Arrays	p. 177
Passing Arrays to Methods	p. 179
Returning an Array from a Method	p. 181
(Optional) Variable-Length Argument Lists	p. 185
Searching Arrays	p. 186
Sorting Arrays	p. 188
The Arrays Class	p. 191
Two-Dimensional Arrays	p. 193
(Optional) Multidimensional Arrays	p. 199
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 211
Objects and Classes	p. 213
Introduction	p. 214
Defining Classes for Objects	p. 214
Constructors	p. 216
Accessing Objects via Reference Variables	p. 216
Using Classes from the Java Library	p. 222
Static Variables, Constants, and Methods	p. 224
Visibility Modifiers	p. 228
Data Field Encapsulation	p. 229
Immutable Objects and Classes	p. 232
Passing Objects to Methods	p. 233
The Scope of Variables	p. 235
The this Keyword	p. 236
Array of Objects	p. 237
Class Abstraction and Encapsulation	p. 239
Case Study: The Loan Class	p. 239
Case Study: The Course Class	p. 243
(Optional) Case Study: The StackOfIntegers Class	p. 245
(Optional GUI) Creating Windows	p. 247
Strings and Text I/O	p. 261
Introduction	p. 262
The String Class	p. 262
The Character Class	p. 270
The StringBuilder/StringBuffer Class	p. 273
Command-Line Arguments	p. 277
(Optional) Regular Expressions	p. 279
The File Class	p. 283
Text I/O	p. 286
(Optional GUI) Containers and Layout Managers	p. 290
Inheritance and Polymorphism	p. 301
Introduction	p. 302
Superclasses and Subclasses	p. 302
Using the super Keyword	p. 307
Overriding Methods	p. 309
Overriding vs. Overloading	p. 310
The Object Class and Its to String() Method	p. 310
Polymorphism, Dynamic Binding, and Generic Programming	p. 311
Casting Objects and the instanceof Operator	p. 313
The ArrayList Class	p. 315
A Custom Stack Class	p. 319
The protected Data and Methods	p. 320
The final Classes, Methods, and Variables	p. 321
(Optional) Methods in the Object Class	p. 322
(Optional) Hiding Data Fields and Static Methods	p. 325
(Optional) Initialization Blocks	p. 327
(Optional GUI) Inheriting GUI Components	p. 330
Abstract Classes and Interfaces	p. 341
Introduction	p. 342
Abstract Classes	p. 342
The Calendar and GregorianCalendar Classes	p. 346
Interfaces	p. 347
Processing Primitive Data Type Values as Objects	p. 356
Automatic Conversion Between Primitive Types and Wrapper Class Types	p. 362
(Optional GUI) Handling GUI Events	p. 363
Object-Oriented Design	p. 371
Introduction	p. 372
The Software Development Process	p. 372
Discovering Class Relationships	p. 373
Case Study: Object-Oriented Design	p. 377
Case Study: The Rational Class	p. 382
Class Design Guidelines	p. 387
(Optional) Modeling Dynamic Behavior Using Sequence Diagrams and Statecharts	p. 390
Framework-Based Programming Using Java API	p. 392
GUI Programming	p. 397
Getting Started with GUI Programming	p. 399
Introduction	p. 400
GUI Components	p. 400
The Java GUI API	p. 401
Frames	p. 403
Layout Managers	p. 406
The Color Class	p. 412
The Font Class	p. 413
Using Panels as Subcontainers	p. 413
Common Features of Swing GUI Components	p. 415
Image Icons	p. 418
Graphics	p. 425
Introduction	p. 426
Graphical Coordinate Systems	p. 426
The Graphics Class	p. 426
The paintComponent Method	p. 429
Drawing Graphics on Panels	p. 430
Drawing Strings, Lines, Rectangles, and Ovals	p. 431
Case Study: The FigurePanel Class	p. 432
Drawing Arcs	p. 436
The Polygon class and Drawing Polygons and Polylines	p. 438
Centering a Display Using the FontMetrics Class	p. 440
Case Study: The MessagePanel Class	p. 442
(Optional) Case Study: The StillClock Class	p. 447
(Optional) Displaying Images	p. 451
(Optional) Case Study: The ImageViewer Class	p. 452
Event-Driven Programming	p. 463
Introduction	p. 464
Event and Event Source	p. 465
Listeners, Registrations, and Handling Events	p. 465
Mouse Events	p. 477
Key Events	p. 479
(Optional) Animation Using the Timer Class	p. 482
Creating User Interfaces	p. 491
Introduction	p. 492
Buttons	p. 492
Check Boxes	p. 498
Radio Buttons	p. 501
Labels	p. 503
Text Fields	p. 504
Text Areas	p. 506
Combo Boxes	p. 509
Lists	p. 512
Scroll Bars	p. 515
Sliders	p. 518
Creating Multiple Windows	p. 521
Applets and Multimedia	p. 535
Introduction	p. 536
The Applet Class	p. 536
The JApplet Class	p. 538
The HTML File and the Tag	p. 539
Enabling Applets to Run as Applications	p. 544
Passing Strings to Applets	p. 546
(Optional) Case Study: TicTacToe	p. 550
(Optional) Case Study: Bouncing Ball	p. 554
(Optional) Locating Resource Using the URL Class	p. 557
(Optional) Playing Audio	p. 559
(Optional) Case Study: Multimedia Animations	p. 560
(Optional) Packaging and Deploying Java Projects	p. 562
Exception Handling, I/O, and Recursion	p. 575
Exceptions and Assertions	p. 577
Introduction	p. 578
Exception-Handling Overview	p. 578
Exceptions and Exception Types	p. 580
Understanding Exception Handling	p. 582
The finally Clause	p. 589
When to Use Exceptions	p. 590
Rethrowing Exceptions	p. 591
(Optional) Chained Exceptions	p. 591
(Optional) Creating Custom Exception Classes	p. 592
(Optional) Assertions	p. 593
Binary I/O	p. 605
Introduction	p. 606
How is I/O Handled in Java?	p. 606
Text I/O vs. Binary I/O	p. 606
Binary I/O Classes	p. 608
Case Study: Copying File	p. 615
Object I/O	p. 617
(Optional) Random Access Files	p. 621
(Optional) Case Study: Address Book	p. 623
Recursion	p. 635
Introduction	p. 636
Example: Factorials	p. 636
Example: Fibonacci Numbers	p. 638
Problem Solving Using Recursion	p. 640
Recursive Helper Methods	p. 641
Tower of Hanoi	p. 643
Fractals	p. 646
Recursion versus Iteration	p. 649
Data Structures	p. 657
Lists, Stacks, Queues, Trees, and Heaps	p. 659
Introduction	p. 660
Lists	p. 660
Stacks and Queues	p. 675
Binary Trees	p. 677
Heaps	p. 683
Priority Queues	p. 688
Generics	p. 693
Introduction	p. 694
Motivations	p. 694
Declaring Generic Classes and Interfaces	p. 695
Generic Methods	p. 698
Raw Type and Backward Compatibility	p. 699
Wildcards	p. 701
Important Facts	p. 703
Avoiding Unsafe Raw Types	p. 703
(Optional) Case Study: Generic Matrix Class	p. 705
Java Collections Framework	p. 713
Introduction	p. 714
The Collection Interface and the AbstractCollection Class	p. 715
Sets	p. 716
The Comparator Interface	p. 721
Lists	p. 723
Static Methods for Lists and Collections	p. 726
The Vector and Stack Classes	p. 729
Queues and Priority Queues	p. 731
(Optional) Maps	p. 733
Singleton and Unmodifiable Collections and Maps	p. 737
Algorithm Efficiency and Sorting	p. 745
Introduction	p. 746
Estimating Algorithm Efficiency	p. 746
Bubble Sort	p. 749
Merge Sort	p. 751
Quick Sort	p. 754
Heap Sort	p. 757
External Sort	p. 761
Concurrency, Networking, and Internationalization	p. 771
Multithreading	p. 773
Introduction	p. 774
Thread Concepts	p. 774
Creating Tasks and Threads	p. 774
The Thread Class	p. 777
Example: Flashing Text	p. 780
GUI Event Dispatcher Thread	p. 781
(Optional) Case Study: Clock with Audio	p. 782
Thread Pools	p. 785
Thread Synchronization	p. 787
(Optional) Synchronization Using Locks	p. 790
(Optional) Cooperation Among Threads	p. 792
(Optional) Case Study: Producer/Consumer	p. 797
(Optional) Blocking Queues	p. 799
(Optional) Semaphores	p. 801
Avoiding Deadlocks	p. 803
Thread States	p. 803
Synchronized Collections	p. 804
(Optional) JProgressBar	p. 805
Networking	p. 815
Introduction	p. 816
Client/Server Computing	p. 816
The InetAddress Class	p. 822
Serving Multiple Clients	p. 823
Applet Clients	p. 826
Sending and Receiving Objects	p. 829
Retrieving Files from Web Servers	p. 834
JEditorPane	p. 836
(Optional) Case Studies: Distributed TicTacToe Games	p. 838
(Optional) Datagram Socket	p. 850
Internationalization	p. 861
Introduction	p. 862
The Locale Class	p. 862
Displaying Date and Time	p. 864
Formatting Numbers	p. 875
(Optional) Resource Bundles	p. 881
(Optional) Character Encoding	p. 888
Advanced GUI Programming	p. 895
JavaBeans and Bean Events	p. 897
Introduction	p. 898
JavaBeans	p. 898
Bean Properties	p. 899
Java Event Model Review	p. 900
Creating Custom Source Components	p. 902
(Optional) Creating Custom Event Sets	p. 906
Containers, Layout Managers, and Borders	p. 917
Introduction	p. 918
Swing Container Structures	p. 918
Layout Managers	p. 920
Creating Custom Layout Managers	p. 938
JScrollPane	p. 943
JTabbedPane	p. 947
JSplitPane	p. 949
Swing Borders	p. 952
(Optional) Pluggable Look-and-Feel	p. 960
Menus, Toolbars, Dialogs, and Internal Frames	p. 967
Introduction	p. 968
Menus	p. 968
Popup Menus	p. 974
JToolBar	p. 976
Processing Actions Using the Action Interface	p. 978
JOptionPane Dialogs	p. 982
Creating Custom Dialogs	p. 989
JColorChooser	p. 992
JFileChooser	p. 994
(Optional) Creating Internal Frames	p. 999
MVC and Swing Models	p. 1007
Introduction	p. 1008
MVC	p. 1008
MVC Variations	p. 1014
Swing Model-View-Controller Architecture	p. 1015
JSpinner	p. 1016
Spinner Models and Editors	p. 1018
JList	p. 1024
List Models	p. 1029
List Cell Renderer	p. 1032
JComboBox	p. 1035
JTable and JTree	p. 1045
Introduction	p. 1046
JTable	p. 1046
Table Models and Table Column Models	p. 1051
Case Study: Modifying Rows and Columns	p. 1055
Table Renderers and Editors	p. 1060
Custom Table Renderers and Editors	p. 1062
Table Model Events	p. 1065
JTree	p. 1068
TreeModel and DefaultTreeModel	p. 1073
TreeNode, MutableTreeNode, and DefaultMutableTreeNode	p. 1074
TreePath and TreeSelectionModel	p. 1077
Case Study: Modifying Trees	p. 1080
Tree Node Rendering and Editing	p. 1084
Tree Events	p. 1085
Web Programming	p. 1091
Java Database Programming	p. 1093
Introduction	p. 1094
Relational Database Systems	p. 1094
SQL	p. 1098
JDBC	p. 1106
PreparedStatement	p. 1113
Retrieving Metadata	p. 1116
Advanced Java Database Programming	p. 1125
Introduction	p. 1126
A Universal SQL Client	p. 1126
Batch Processing	p. 1130
Scrollable and Updateable Result Set	p. 1135
RowSet, JdbcRowSet, and CachedRowSet	p. 1145
Storing and Retrieving Images in JDBC	p. 1150
Servlets	p. 1157
Introduction	p. 1158
HTML and Common Gateway Interface	p. 1158
Creating and Running Servlets	p. 1160
The Servlet API	p. 1164
Creating Servlets	p. 1168
HTML Forms	p. 1170
Database Programming in Servlets	p. 1176
Session Tracking	p. 1180
Sending Images from Servlets	p. 1195
JavaServer Pages	p. 1209
Introduction	p. 1210
A Simple JSP Page	p. 1210
How Is a JSP Page Processed?	p. 1211
JSP Scripting Constructs	p. 1211
Predefined Variables	p. 1213
JSP Directives	p. 1215
Using JavaBeans in JSP	p. 1219
Getting and Setting Properties	p. 1222
Associating Properties with Input Parameters	p. 1223
Forwarding Requests from JavaServer Pages	p. 1232
Case Study: Browsing Database Tables	p. 1232
Remote Method Invocations	p. 1243
Introduction	p. 1244
RMI Basics	p. 1244
Developing RMI Applications	p. 1246
RMI vs. Socket-Level Programming	p. 1252
Developing Three-Tier Applications Using RMI	p. 1253
RMI Callbacks	p. 1255
	p. 1269
Java Keywords	p. 1271
The ASCII Character Set	p. 1272
Operator Precedence Chart	p. 1274
Java Modifiers	p. 1276
Special Floating-Point Values	p. 1278
Bit Operations	p. 1279
Index	p. 1281
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