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Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers and Java 1 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Why Program? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 Computer Systems: Hardware and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4 Programming Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.5 What Is a Program Made of? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.6 The Programming Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.7 Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Review Questions and Exercises 21 Programming Challenge 25 Chapter 2 Java Fundamentals 27 2.1 The Parts of a Java Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 2.2 The print and println Methods, and the Java API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 2.3 Variables and Literals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 2.4 Primitive Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2.5 Arithmetic Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 2.6 Combined Assignment Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 2.7 Conversion between Primitive Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 2.8 Creating Named Constants with final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 2.9 The String Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 2.10 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 2.11 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 2.12 Programming Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 2.13 Reading Keyboard Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 2.14 Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 2.15 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Review Questions and Exercises 100 Programming Challenges 105 Chapter 3 Decision Structures 109 3.1 The if Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 3.2 The if-else Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 3.3 Nested if Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 3.4 The if-else-if Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 3.5 Logical Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 3.6 Comparing String Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 3.7 More about Variable Declaration and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 3.8 The Conditional Operator (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 3.9 The switch Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 3.10 The System.out.printf Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 3.11 Creating Objects with the DecimalFormat Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 3.12 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Review Questions and Exercises 182 Programming Challenges 187 Chapter 4 Loops and Files 193 4.1 The Increment and Decrement Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 4.2 The while Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 4.3 Using the while Loop for Input Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 4.4 The do-while Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 4.5 The for Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 4.6 Running Totals and Sentinel Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 4.7 Nested Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 4.8 The break and continue Statements (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 4.9 Deciding Which Loop to Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 4.10 Introduction to File Input and Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 4.11 Generating Random Numbers with the Random Class . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 4.12 Common Errors to Avoid 259 Review Questions and Exercises 260 Programming Challenges 266 Chapter 5 Methods 273 5.1 Introduction to Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 5.2 Passing Arguments to a Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 5.3 More about Local Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 5.4 Returning a Value from a Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 5.5 Problem Solving with Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 5.6 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 Review Questions and Exercises 311 Programming Challenges 316 Chapter 6 A First Look at Classes 323 6.1 Objects and Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 6.2 Writing a Simple Class, Step by Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 6.3 Instance Fields and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 6.4 Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 6.5 Passing Objects as Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364 6.6 Overloading Methods and Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 6.7 Scope of Instance Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384 6.8 Packages and import Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 6.9 Focus on Object-Oriented Design: Finding the Classes and Their Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388 6.10 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394 Review Questions and Exercises 395 Programming Challenges 400 Chapter 7 Arrays and the ArrayList Class 407 7.1 Introduction to Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 7.2 Processing Array Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 7.3 Passing Arrays As Arguments to Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 7.4 Some Useful Array Algorithms and Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430 7.5 Returning Arrays from Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 7.6 String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 7.7 Arrays of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448 7.8 The Sequential Search Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451 7.9 Two-Dimensional Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454 7.10 Arrays with Three or More Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 7.11 The Selection Sort and the Binary Search Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 467 7.12 Command-Line Arguments and Variable-Length Argument Lists . . . 472 7.13 The ArrayList Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 7.14 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485 Review Questions and Exercises 485 Programming Challenges 490 Chapter 8 A Second Look at Classes and Objects 497 8.1 Static Class Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497 8.2 Passing Objects As Arguments to Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504 8.3 Returning Objects from Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507 8.4 The toString Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509 8.5 Writing an equals Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 8.6 Methods That Copy Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 8.7 Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 8.8 The this Reference Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 8.9 Enumerated Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535 8.10 Garbage Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544 8.11 Focus on Object-Oriented Design: Class Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . 546 8.12 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 Review Questions and Exercises 551 Programming Challenges 555 Chapter 9 Text Processing and More about Wrapper Classes 561 9.1 Introduction to Wrapper Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561 9.2 Character Testing and Conversion with the Character Class . . . . . . . 562 9.3 More String Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 9.4 The StringBuilder Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584 9.5 Tokenizing Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 9.6 Wrapper Classes for the Numeric Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 9.7 Focus on Problem Solving: The TestScoreReader Class . . . . . . . . . . . 606 9.8 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610 Review Questions and Exercises 610 Programming Challenges 614 Chapter 10 Inheritance 619 10.1 What Is Inheritance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619 10.2 Calling the Superclass Constructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632 10.3 Overriding Superclass Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 10.4 Protected Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649 10.5 Chains of Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655 10.6 The Object Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 10.7 Polymorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663 10.8 Abstract Classes and Abstract Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668 10.9 Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675 10.10 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687 Review Questions and Exercises 688 Programming Challenges 693 Chapter 11 Exceptions and Advanced File I/O 699 11.1 Handling Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699 11.2 Throwing Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723 11.3 Advanced Topics: Binary Files, Random Access Files, and Object Serialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729 11.4 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746 Review Questions and Exercises 746 Programming Challenges 752 Chapter 12 A First Look at GUI Applications 755 12.1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755 12.2 Creating Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758 12.3 Layout Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787 12.4 Radio Buttons and Check Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804 12.5 Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815 12.6 Focus on Problem Solving: Extending Classes from JPanel . . . . 818 12.7 Splash Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830 12.8 Using Console Output to Debug a GUI Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831 12.9 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836 Review Questions and Exercises 836 Programming Challenges 839 Chapter 13 Advanced GUI Applications 843 13.1 The Swing and AWT Class Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843 13.2 Read-Only Text Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844 13.3 Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846 13.4 Combo Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862 13.5 Displaying Images in Labels and Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868 13.6 Mnemonics and Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874 13.7 File Choosers and Color Choosers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876 13.8 Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880 13.9 More about Text Components: Text Areas and Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . 889 13.10 Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893 13.11 Look and Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898 13.12 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 Review Questions and Exercises 901 Programming Challenges 906 Chapter 14 Applets and More 911 14.1 Introduction to Applets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911 14.2 A Brief Introduction to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913 14.3 Creating Applets with Swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922 14.4 Using AWT for Portability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931 14.5 Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936 14.6 Handling Mouse Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957 14.7 Timer Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967 14.8 Playing Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971 14.9 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976 Review Questions and Exercises 976 Programming Challenges 982 Chapter 15 Recursion 985 15.1 Introduction to Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985 15.2 Solving Problems with Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988 15.3 Examples of Recursive Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993 15.4 A Recursive Binary Search Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999 15.5 The Towers of Hanoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002 15.6 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007 Review Questions and Exercises 1007 Programming Challenges 1010 Chapter 16 Databases 1013 16.1 Introduction to Database Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013 16.2 Tables, Rows, and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019 16.3 Introduction to the SQL SELECT Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022 16.4 Inserting Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044 16.5 Updating and Deleting Existing Rows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048 16.6 Creating and Deleting Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057 16.7 Creating a New Database with JDBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060 16.8 Scrollable Result Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062 16.9 Result Set Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063 16.10 Displaying Query Results in a JTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1067 16.11 Relational Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077 16.12 Advanced Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099 16.13 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101 Review Questions and Exercises 1101 Programming Challenges 1106 Java TM Quick Reference 1109 Index   Student CD-ROM: Appendix A Getting Started with Alice Appendix B The ASCII/Unicode Characters Appendix C Operator Precedence and Associativity Appendix D Java Key Words Appendix E Installing the JDK and JDK Documentation Appendix F Using the javadoc Utility Appendix G More about the Math Class Appendix H Packages Appendix I Working with Records and Random Access Files Appendix J More about JOptionPane Dialog Boxes Appendix K Answers to Checkpoints Appendix L Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions 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 SerialNumber Class Case Study 7 A Simple Text Editor Application