Dr. Y. Daniel Liang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma in 1991, and an MS and BS in Computer Science from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 1986 and 1983. Prior to joining Armstrong, he was an associate professor in computer science at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, where he twice received the Excellence in Research award.

Dr. Liang was trained in theoretical computer science. He was active in graph algorithms from 1990 to 1995 and published more than ten papers in several established journals such as SIAM Journal on Computing, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Acta Informatics, and Information Processing Letters. Since 1996, he has devoted to writing texts and published more than thirty books with Prentice Hall. His popular computer science texts are widely adopted in the world.

Dr. Liang was elected a Java Champion in 2005 by Sun Microsystems and has given lectures on Java internationally.

1 Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Java

2 Elementary Programming

3 Selections

4 Mathematical Functions, Characters, and Strings

5 Loops

6 Methods

7 Single-Dimensional Arrays

8 Multidimensional Arrays

9 Objects and Classes

10 Object-Oriented Thinking

11 Inheritance and Polymorphism

12 Exception Handling and Text I/O

13 Abstract Classes and Interfaces

14 JavaFX Basics

15 Event-Driven Programming and Animations

16 JavaFX UI Controls and Multimedia

17 Binary I/O

18 Recursion

19 Generics

20 Lists, Stacks, Queues, and Priority Queues

21 Sets and Maps

22 Developing Efficient Algorithms

23 Sorting

24 Implementing Lists, Stacks, Queues, and Priority Queues

25 Binary Search Trees

26 AVL Trees

27 Hashing

28 Graphs and Applications

29 Weighted Graphs and Applications

30 Aggregate Operations for Collection Streams

Appendixes

Appendix A   Java Keywords

Appendix B   The ASCII Character Set

Appendix C   Operator Precedence Chart

Appendix D   Java Modifiers

Appendix E   Special Floating-Point Values

Appendix F   Number Systems

Appendix G   Bitwise Operations

Appendix H   Regular Expressions

Appendix I   Enumerated types

Bonus Chapters 31–44 are available from the Companion Website at www.pearsonhighered.com/liang:

31 Advanced JavaFX and FXML

32 Multithreading and Parallel Programming

33 Networking

34 Java Database Programming

35 Advanced Database Programming

36 Internationalization

37 Servlets

38 JavaServer Pages

39 JavaServer Faces

40 RMI

41 Web Services

42 2-4 Trees and B-Trees

43 Red-Black Trees

44 Testing Using JUnit

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