Herbert Schildt’s Java 2: The Complete Reference 5th Edition is apt for Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology students. The book is divided into multiple chapters so as to have a better understanding of the subject. The book covers 6th semester, 4th semester, 5th semester and 3rd semester syllabus.
About Herbert Schildt
Herbert Schildt is an American author and windows programmer. He has authored books like Modula-2 Made Easy, Advanced Turbo Pascal and Advanced Modula-2. Schildt obtained his graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Illinois. He has penned down books about DOS, C, C++ and other computer languages.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Java Language
1: The Genesis of Java
2: An Overview of Java
3: Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
4: Operators
5: Control Statements
6: Introducing Classes
7: A Closer Look at Methods and Classes
8: Inheritance
9: Packages and Interfaces
10: Exception Handling
11: Multithreaded Programming
12: I/O, Applets, and Other Topics
Part II: The Java Library
13: String Handling
14: Exploring java.lang
15: java.util Part 1: The Collections Framework
16: java.util Part 2: More Utility Classes
17: Input/Output: Exploring java.io
18: Networking
19: The Applet Class
20: Event Handling
21: Introducing the AWT: Working with Windows, Graphics, and Text
22: Using AWT Controls, Layout Managers, and Menus
23: Images
24: New I/O, Regular Expressions, and Other Packages
Part III: Software Development Using Java
25: Java Beans
26: A Tour of Swing
27: Servlets
28: Migrating from C++ to Java
Part IV: Applying Java
29: The DynamicBillboard Applet
30: ImageMenu: An Image-Based Web Menu
31: The Lavatron Applet: A Sports Arena Display
32: Scrabblet: A Multiplayer Word Game
Appendix A: Using Java?s Documentation Comments