John Lewis is the co-author of the best-selling introductory Java programming book Java Software Solutions , as well as Java Software Structures, Programming with Alice and Java , and books for AP computer science.  He teaches courses at both Virginia Tech and Radford University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech.

Peter DePasquale is an assistant professor of computer science at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He is the author of Addison-Wesley’s Java Backpack Reference Guide and Addison-Wesley’s C++ Backpack Reference Guide, as well as Programming with Alice and Java .

Joe Chase is an associate professor of computer science at Radford University. He is the co-author of Java Software Structures and Java Software Structures for AP* Computer Science AB.

1. Data and Expressions
2. Using Classes and Objects
3. Conditionals and Loops
4. Writing Classes
5. Graphical User Interfaces
6. Arrays
7. Inheritance
8. Polymorphism
9. Exceptions
10. Analysis of Algorithms
11. Introduction to Collections–Stacks
12. Linked Structures–Stacks
13. Queues
14. Lists
15. Iterators
16. Recursion
17. Searching and Sorting
18. Trees
19. Binary Search Trees
20. Heaps and Priority Queues
21. Sets and Maps
22. Multi-way Search Trees
23. Graphs
24. Databases

Appendix A Glossary

Appendix B Number Systems

Appendix C The Unicode Character Set

Appendix D Java Operators

Appendix E Java Modifiers

Appendix F JavaFX Graphics

Appendix G JavaFX Scene Builder

Appendix H Regular Expressions

Appendix I Hashing

Appendix J Java Syntax

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