Sams teach yourself Java (covers Java 7 and Android) in 21 days

Content: Introduction   1 WEEK 1: The Java Language   7 1 Getting Started with Java   9 The Java Language   10 History of the Language   10 Introduction to Java   11 Selecting a Development Tool    12 Object-Oriented Programming   13 Objects and Classes   14 Attributes and Behavior   17 Attributes of a Class of Objects   17 Behavior of a Class of Objects   18 Creating a Class   19 Running the Program   23 Organizing Classes and Class Behavior   25 Inheritance    Creating a Class Hierarchy   27 Inheritance in Action   29 Interfaces   31 Packages   32 Summary   32 Q&A    Quiz   34 Questions   34 Certification Practice   34 Exercises   35 2 The ABCs of Programming   37 Statements and Expressions   38 Variables and Data Types   38 Creating Variables   39 Naming Variables   40 Variable Types   41 Assigning Values to Variables   43 Constants   43 Comments   45 Literals   46 Number Literals   47 Boolean Literals   48 Character Literals   49 String Literals   50 Expressions and Operators   51 Arithmetic   51 More About Assignment   53 Incrementing and Decrementing   54 Comparisons   56 Logical Operators   57 Operator Precedence   58 String Arithmetic   60 Summary   61 Q&A   62 Quiz   62 Questions   62 Certification Practice   63 Exercises   63 3 Working with Objects   65 Creating New Objects   66 Using new   66 How Objects Are Constructed   68 A Note on Memory Management   69 Using Class and Instance Variables   70 Getting Values   70 Setting Values   70 Class Variables   72 Calling Methods   73 Formatting Strings   75 Nesting Method Calls   75 Class Methods   76 References to Objects   77 Casting Objects and Primitive Types   79 Casting Primitive Types   80 Casting Objects   81 Converting Primitive Types to Objects and Vice Versa   83 Comparing Object Values and Classes   84 Comparing Objects   85 Determining the Class of an Object   87 Summary   87 Q&A   88 Quiz   88 Questions   89 Certification Practice   89 Exercises   90 4 Lists, Logic, and Loops   91 Arrays   92 Declaring Array Variables   92 Creating Array Objects   93 Accessing Array Elements   94 Changing Array Elements   95 Multidimensional Arrays    97 Block Statements   98 If Conditionals   99 Switch Conditionals   101 The Ternary Operator   107 For Loops   108 While and Do Loops   111 While Loops   111 Do-While Loops   113 Breaking Out of Loops   114 Labeled Loops   114 Summary   115 Q&A   115 Quiz   116 Questions   116 Certification Practice   117 Exercises   117 5 Creating Classes and Methods   119 Defining Classes  120 Creating Instance and Class Variables   120 Defining Instance Variables   120 Class Variables   121 Creating Methods   121 Defining Methods   122 The this Keyword   124 Variable Scope and Method Definitions   125 Passing Arguments to Methods   126 Class Methods   127 Creating Java Applications   129 Helper Classes   130 Java Applications and Command-Line Arguments   130 Passing Arguments to Java Applications   130 Handling Arguments in Your Java Application   131 Creating Methods with the Same Name   133 Constructors   136 Basic Constructors   137 Calling Another Constructor   138 Overloading Constructors   138 Overriding Methods   140 Creating Methods That Override Existing Methods   140 Calling the Original Method   142 Overriding Constructors   143 Summary   144 Q&A   145 Quiz   146 Questions   146 Certification Practice   146 Exercises   148 6 Packages, Interfaces, and Other Class Features   149 Modifiers   150 Access Control for Methods and Variables   151 Static Variables and Methods   157 Final Classes, Methods, and Variables   159 Variables   159 Methods   160 Classes   160 Abstract Classes and Methods   161 Packages   162 The import Declaration   163 Class Name Conflicts   165 Creating Your Own Packages   165 Picking a Package Name   165 Creating the Folder Structure   166 Adding a Class to a Package   166 Packages and Class Access Control   166 Interfaces   167 The Problem of Single Inheritance   167 Interfaces and Classes   168 Implementing and Using Interfaces   168 Implementing Multiple Interfaces   169 Other Uses of Interfaces   169 Creating and Extending Interfaces   170 New Interfaces   170 Methods Inside Interfaces   171 Extending Interfaces   172 Creating an Online Storefront   172 Inner Classes   179 Summary   181 Q&A   182 Quiz   183 Questions   183 Certification Practice   183 Exercises   185 7 Exceptions and Threads   187 Exceptions   188 Exception Classes  190 Managing Exceptions   191 Exception Consistency Checking   191 Protecting Code and Catching Exceptions   192 The finally Clause   195 Declaring Methods That Might Throw Exceptions   198 The throws Clause   199 Which Exceptions Should You Throw?    200 Passing on Exceptions   201 throws and Inheritance   202 Creating and Throwing Your Own Exceptions   203 Throwing Exceptions   203 Creating Your Own Exceptions   204 Combining throws, try, and throw   204 When and When Not to Use Exceptions   205 When to Use Exceptions   205 When Not to Use Exceptions   206 Bad Style Using Exceptions   206 Threads   207 Writing a Threaded Program   207 A Threaded Application   209 Stopping a Thread   214 Summary   215 Q&A   215 Quiz   217 Questions   217 Certification Practice   217 Exercises   218 WEEK 2: The Java Class Library   219 8 Data Structures   221 Moving Beyond Arrays   222 Java Structures   222 Iterator   224 Bit Sets   225 Array Lists   228 Looping Through Data Structures   231 Stacks   233 Map   235 Hash Maps   236 Generics   241 Summary   245 Q&A   245 Quiz   246 Questions   246 Certification Practice   246 Exercises   247 9 Working with Swing   249 Creating an Application   250 Creating an Interface   251 Developing a Framework   254 Creating a Component   255 Adding Components to a Container   256 Working with Components   258 Image Icons   259 Labels   261 Text Fields   262 Text Areas   263 Scrolling Panes   265 Check Boxes and Radio Buttons   266 Combo Boxes   269 Lists   271 Summary   273 Q&A   273 Quiz   274 Questions   274 Certification Practice   274 Exercises   275 10 Building a Swing Interface   277 Swing Features  278 Standard Dialog Boxes   278 Using Dialog Boxes   283 Sliders   286 Scroll Panes   288 Toolbars   289 Progress Bars   292 Menus   295 Tabbed Panes   299 Summary   301 Q&A   301 Quiz   302 Questions   302 Certification Practice  303 Exercises   304 11 Arranging Components on a User Interface   305 Basic Interface Layout   306 Laying Out an Interface   306 Flow Layout   307 Box Layout   309 Grid Layout   311 Border Layout   314 Mixing Layout Managers   316 Card Layout   317 Using Card Layout in an Application   319 Grid Bag Layout   325 Designing the Grid   327 Creating the Grid   329 Cell Padding and Insets   334 Summary   335 Q&A   335 Quiz   336 Questions   336 Certification Practice   337 Exercises   338 12 Responding to User Input   339 Event Listeners   340 Setting Up Components   341 Event-Handling Methods   342 Working with Methods   345 Action Events   345 Focus Events   346 Item Events   349 Key Events   351 Mouse Events   352 Mouse Motion Events   352 Window Events   357 Using Adapter Classes   357 Using Inner Classes   359 Summary   362 Q&A   362 Quiz   363 Questions   363 Certification Practice   363 Exercises   365 13 Creating Java2D Graphics   367 The Graphics2D Class   368 The Graphics Coordinate System   369 Drawing Text   370 Improving Fonts and Graphics with Antialiasing   372 Finding Information About a Font   372 Color   375 Using Color Objects   375 Testing and Setting the Current Colors   376 Drawing Lines and Polygons   377 User and Device Coordinate Spaces   377 Specifying the Rendering Attributes   378 Creating Objects to Draw   381 Drawing Objects   384 Summary   387 Q&A   387 Quiz   388 Questions   388 Certification Practice   388 Exercises   389 14 Developing Swing Applications   391 Java Web Start   392 Using Java Web Start   395 Creating a JNLP File   396 Supporting Web Start on a Server   405 Additional JNLP Elements   406 Improving Performance with SwingWorker   408 Summary   413 Q&A   414 Quiz   414 Questions   414 Certification Practice   415 Exercises   416 WEEK 3: Java Programming   417 15 Working with Input and Output   419 Introduction to Streams  420 Using a Stream   420 Filtering a Stream   421 Handling Exceptions   421 Byte Streams   422 File Streams   422 Filtering a Stream   426 Byte Filters   427 Character Streams   436 Reading Text Files   436 Writing Text Files   439 Files and Paths   440 Summary   443 Q&A   443 Quiz   444 Questions   444 Certification Practice   445 Exercises   446 16 Serializing and Examining Objects   447 Object Serialization   448 Object Output Streams   449 Object Input Streams  452 Transient Variables   455 Checking an Object\'s Serialized Fields   456 Inspecting Classes and Methods with Reflection   457 Inspecting and Creating Classes   457 Working with Each Part of a Class   459 Inspecting a Class   461 Summary  463 Q&A   463 Quiz   464 Questions   464 Certification Practice   465 Exercises   465 17 Communicating Across the Internet   467 Networking in Java   468 Opening a Stream Over the Net   468 Sockets   473 Socket Servers   476 Testing the Server   479 The java.nio Package   481 Buffers   481 Channels   485 Summary   495 Q&A   496 Quiz   496 Questions   496 Certification Practice   497 Exercises   498 18 Accessing Databases with JDBC 4.1 and Derby   499 Java Database Connectivity   500 Database Drivers   501 Examining a Database   501 Reading Records from a Database   503 Writing Records to a Database   509 Moving Through Resultsets   516 Summary   517 Q&A   518 Quiz   518 Questions   518 Certification Practice   519 Exercises   519 19 Reading and Writing RSS Feeds   521 Using XML   522 Designing an XML Dialect   525 Processing XML with Java   526 Processing XML with XOM   526 Creating an XML Document   528 Modifying an XML Document   532 Formatting an XML Document   536 Evaluating XOM   538 Summary   540 Q&A   541 Quiz   542 Questions   542 Certification Practice.    542 Exercises   543 20 XML Web Services   545 Introduction to XML-RPC   546 Communicating with XML-RPC   547 Sending a Request   548 Responding to a Request   549 Choosing an XML-RPC Implementation   550 Using an XML-RPC Web Service   552 Creating an XML-RPC Web Service   555 Summary   560 Q&A   561 Quiz   561 Questions   561 Certification Practice   562 Exercises   563 21 Writing Android Apps for Java   565 The History of Android   566 Writing an Android App   567 Organizing an Android Project   569 Creating the Program   570 Using an Android Emulator   573 Creating a Debug Configuration   574 Running the App   575 Designing an Android App   577 Preparing Resources   578 Configuring a Manifest File   582 Designing the Graphical User Interface   582 Writing Code   585 Summary   591 Q&A   591 Quiz  592 Questions   592 Certification Practice   592 Exercises   592 Appendixes   593 A Using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment   595 B This Book\'s Website   603 C Setting Up an Android Development Environment   605 D Using the Java Development Kit   613 E Programming with the Java Development Kit   635 Quiz Answers   659