Core Java for the Impatient, 3rd Edition

Title Page
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1. Fundamental Programming Structures
	1.1. Our First Program
	1.2. Primitive Types
	1.3. Variables
	1.4. Arithmetic Operations
	1.5. Strings
	1.6. Input and Output
	1.7. Control Flow
	1.8. Arrays and Array Lists
	1.9. Functional Decomposition
	Exercises
Chapter 2. Object-Oriented Programming
	2.1. Working with Objects
	2.2. Implementing Classes
	2.3. Object Construction
	2.4. Records
	2.5. Static Variables and Methods
	2.6. Packages
	2.7. Nested Classes
	2.8. Documentation Comments
	Exercises
Chapter 3. Interfaces and Lambda Expressions
	3.1. Interfaces
	3.2. Static, Default, and Private Methods
	3.3. Examples of Interfaces
	3.4. Lambda Expressions
	3.5. Method and Constructor References
	3.6. Processing Lambda Expressions
	3.7. Lambda Expressions and Variable Scope
	3.8. Higher-Order Functions
	3.9. Local and Anonymous Classes
	Exercises
Chapter 4. Inheritance and Reflection
	4.1. Extending a Class
	4.2. Inheritance Hierarchies
	4.3. Object: The Cosmic Superclass
	4.4. Enumerations
	4.5. Runtime Type Information and Resources
	4.6. Reflection
	Exercises
Chapter 5. Exceptions, Assertions, and Logging
	5.1. Exception Handling
	5.2. Assertions
	5.3. Logging
	Exercises
Chapter 6. Generic Programming
	6.1. Generic Classes
	6.2. Generic Methods
	6.3. Type Bounds
	6.4. Type Variance and Wildcards
	6.5. Generics in the Java Virtual Machine
	6.6. Restrictions on Generics
	6.7. Reflection and Generics
	Exercises
Chapter 7. Collections
	7.1. An Overview of the Collections Framework
	7.2. Iterators
	7.3. Sets
	7.4. Maps
	7.5. Other Collections
	7.6. Views
	Exercises
Chapter 8. Streams
	8.1. From Iterating to Stream Operations
	8.2. Stream Creation
	8.3. The filter, map, and flatMap Methods
	8.4. Extracting Substreams and Combining Streams
	8.5. Other Stream Transformations
	8.6. Simple Reductions
	8.7. The Optional Type
	8.8. Collecting Results
	8.9. Collecting into Maps
	8.10. Grouping and Partitioning
	8.11. Downstream Collectors
	8.12. Reduction Operations
	8.13. Primitive Type Streams
	8.14. Parallel Streams
	Exercises
Chapter 9. Processing Input and Output
	9.1. Input/Output Streams, Readers, and Writers
	9.2. Paths, Files, and Directories
	9.3. HTTP Connections
	9.4. Regular Expressions
	9.5. Serialization
	Exercises
Chapter 10. Concurrent Programming
	10.1. Concurrent Tasks
	10.2. Asynchronous Computations
	10.3. Thread Safety
	10.4. Parallel Algorithms
	10.5. Threadsafe Data Structures
	10.6. Atomic Counters and Accumulators
	10.7. Locks and Conditions
	10.8. Threads
	10.9. Processes
	Exercises
Chapter 11. Annotations
	11.1. Using Annotations
	11.2. Defining Annotations
	11.3. Standard Annotations
	11.4. Processing Annotations at Runtime
	11.5. Source-Level Annotation Processing
	Exercises
Chapter 12. The Date and Time API
	12.1. The Time Line
	12.2. Local Dates
	12.3. Date Adjusters
	12.4. Local Time
	12.5. Zoned Time
	12.6. Formatting and Parsing
	12.7. Interoperating with Legacy Code
	Exercises
Chapter 13. Internationalization
	13.1. Locales
	13.2. Number Formats
	13.3. Currencies
	13.4. Date and Time Formatting
	13.5. Collation and Normalization
	13.6. Message Formatting
	13.7. Resource Bundles
	13.8. Character Encodings
	13.9. Preferences
	Exercises
Chapter 14. Compiling and Scripting
	14.1. The Compiler API
	14.2. The Scripting API
	Exercises
Chapter 15. The Java Platform Module System
	15.1. The Module Concept
	15.2. Naming Modules
	15.3. The Modular “Hello, World!” Program
	15.4. Requiring Modules
	15.5. Exporting Packages
	15.6. Modules and Reflective Access
	15.7. Modular JARs
	15.8. Automatic Modules
	15.9. The Unnamed Module
	15.10. Command-Line Flags for Migration
	15.11. Transitive and Static Requirements
	15.12. Qualified Exporting and Opening
	15.13. Service Loading
	15.14. Tools for Working with Modules
	Exercises