Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out With series of textbooks. Tony has nearly 20 years experience teaching computer science courses at Haywood Community College in North Carolina. He is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College Teacher of the Year and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. The Starting Out With series includes introductory books using the C++ programming language, the Java™ programming language, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft® C#®, Python, Programming Logic and Design, MIT App Inventor, and Alice, all published by Pearson.

Godfrey Muganda is Professor of Computer Science at North Central College. He teaches a wide variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels including courses in Linux and Unix programming, Windows and .NET programming, web application Development, web services, data structures, and algorithms. He is a past winner of the North Central College faculty award for outstanding scholarship. His primary research interests are in the area of fuzzy sets and systems.

1. Introduction to Computers and Java

2. Java Fundamentals

3. Decision Structures

4. Loops and Files

5. Methods

6. A First Look at Classes

7. Arrays and the ArrayList Class

8. A Second Look at Classes and Objects

9. Text Processing and More about Wrapper Classes

10. Inheritance

11. Exceptions and Advanced File I/O

12. JavaFX: GUI Programming and Basic Controls

13. JavaFX: Advanced Controls

14. JavaFX: Graphics, Effects, and Media

15. Recursion

16. Sorting, Searching, and Algorithm Analysis

17. Generics

18. Collections and the Stream API

19. Linked Lists

20. Stacks and Queues

21. Binary Trees, AVL Trees, and Priority Queues

Online Appendices

Appendix A: The ASCII/Unicode Characters

Appendix B: Operator Precedence and Associativity

Appendix C: Java Key Words

Appendix D: Installing the JDK and Using the JDK Documentation

Appendix E: Using the javadoc Utility

Appendix F: More about the Math Class

Appendix G: Packages

Appendix H: Working with Records and Random Access Files

Appendix I: Configuring JavaDB and Installing Apache Derby

Appendix J: The QuickSort Algorithm

Appendix K: Named Colors

Appendix L: Answers to Checkpoints

Appendix M: Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions

Online Chapters

Chapter 22: Databases

Chapter 23: A First Look at GUI Applications with Swing

Chapter 24: Advanced Swing GUI Applications

Chapter 25: Applets and More

Online Case Studies

Case Study 1: Calculating Sales Commission

Case Study 2: The Amortization Class

Case Study 3: The PinTester Class

Case Study 4: Parallel Arrays

Case Study 5: The FeetInches Class

Case Study 6: The Serial Number Class

Case Study 7: A Simple Text Editor Application

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