Objects First with Java : A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ
ISBN: 9780131976290 | 013197629X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback w/CD
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006
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The book has a very clear identity. It takes a truly objects first approach to teaching problem solving using Java. These are complicated concepts so the book uses the development environment BlueJ to help the student's understanding. BlueJ has a strong emphasis on visualization and interaction techniques, and allows the students to manipulate objects and call methods as a first exercise. BlueJ is free and freely available, and has been developed specifically for teaching. The book is loaded with projects so that the student can really get a gr... MORE
| Contents | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface to the instructor | |
| List of projects discussed in detail in this book | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Foundations of object orientation | |
| Objects and classes | |
| Objects and classes | |
| Creating objects | |
| Calling methods | |
| Parameters | |
| Data types | ... MORE |
| Multiple instances | |
| State | |
| What is in an object? | |
| Object interaction | |
| Source code | |
| Another example | |
| Return values | |
| Objects as parameters | |
| Summary | |
| Understanding class definitions | |
| Ticket machines | |
| Exploring the behavior of a naive ticket machine | |
| Examining a class definition | |
| Fields, constructors, and methods | |
| Fields | |
| Constructors | |
| Passing data via parameters | |
| Assignment | |
| Accessor methods | |
| Mutator methods | |
| Printing from methods | |
| Summary of the naive ticket machine | |
| Reflecting on the design of the ticket machine | |
| Making choices: the conditional statement | |
| A further conditional-statement example | |
| Local variables | |
| Fields, parameters, and local variables | |
| Summary of the better ticket machine | |
| Self-review exercises | |
| Reviewing a familiar example | |
| Summary | |
| Object interaction | |
| The clock example | |
| Abstraction and modularization | |
| Abstraction in software | |
| Modularization in the clock example | |
| Implementing the clock display | |
| Class diagrams versus object diagrams | |
| Primitive types and object types | |
| The ClockDisplay source code | |
| Class NumberDisplay | |
| String concatenation | |
| The modulo operator | |
| Class ClockDisplay | |
| Objects creating objects | |
| Multiple constructors | |
| Method calls | |
| Internal method calls | |
| External method calls | |
| Summary of the clock display | |
| Another example of object interaction | |
| The mail system example | |
| The this keyword | |
| Using a debugger | |
| Setting breakpoints | |
| Single stepping | |
| Stepping into methods | |
| Method calling revisited | |
| Summary | |
| Grouping objects | |
| Grouping objects in flexible-size collections | |
| A personal notebook | |
| A first look at library classes | |
| An example of using a library | |
| Object structures with collections | |
| Generic classes | |
| Numbering within collections | |
| Removing an item from a collection | |
| Processing a whole collection | |
| The for-each loop | |
| The while loop | |
| Iterating over a collection | |
| Index access versus iterators | |
| Summary of the notebook example | |
| Another example: an auction system | |
| The Lot class | |
| The Auction class | |
| Anonymous objects | |
| Using collections | |
| Flexible collection summary | |
| Fixed-size collections | |
| A log-file analyzer | |
| Declaring array variables | |
| Creating array objects | |
| Using array objects | |
| Analyzing the log file | |
| The for loop | |
| Summary | |
| More sophisticated behavior | |
| Documentation for library classes | |
| The TechSupport system | |
| Exploring the TechSupport system | |
| Reading the code | |
| Reading class documentation | |
| Interfaces versus imple | |
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