| List of Figures | p. x |
| List of Tables | p. xvi |
| List of Bug Alerts | p. xviii |
| Preface | p. xx |
| What is Programming? | |
| Mechanical Mouse in a Maze | p. 4 |
| Object-Oriented Programming | p. 11 |
| Computers and Data Representations | p. 13 |
| Compilers | p. 19 |
| Debugging | p. 23 |
| Applications and Applets | p. 25 |
| Classes and Methods I: Basics | |
| Some Simple Programs | p. 31 |
| Building Simple Classes | p. 40 |
| Text Output | p. 43 |
| Drawing in Java | p. 46 |
| Fundamental Data Types of Java | |
| Integers | p. 57 |
| Declarations, Variables, and Assignment Statements | p. 62 |
| Real Numbers | p. 66 |
| Strings | p. 71 |
| Debugging | p. 77 |
| Pitfalls of Numbers, Strings, and Characters | p. 88 |
| Decision Making | |
| The if Statement | p. 97 |
| Constructing and Analyzing Boolean Expressions | p. 109 |
| Comparing Objects | p. 117 |
| switch Statements | p. 122 |
| Debugging Decision Making | p. 128 |
| More About Boolean Operators | p. 136 |
| Classes and Methods II: Classes with Multiple Methods | |
| Building Classes with Multiple Methods | p. 149 |
| Initialization of Instance Variables | p. 152 |
| Scope of Variables | p. 153 |
| Class Constructors with Arguments | p. 156 |
| A Clock Class | p. 157 |
| Iteration | |
| while Loops | p. 173 |
| for Loops | p. 179 |
| do-while Loops | p. 181 |
| Loop Invariants | p. 183 |
| Reading Input in a Loop | p. 184 |
| Debugging Loops | p. 192 |
| More Drawing in Java | p. 201 |
| Iteration in Graphical Programs | p. 203 |
| Classes and Methods III: Working with Objects | |
| Object-Oriented Programming | p. 215 |
| Clocks Revisited | p. 219 |
| Constructors | p. 221 |
| Overloading Methods | p. 223 |
| Methods Invoking Methods | p. 226 |
| This | p. 230 |
| Visibility Qualifiers | p. 235 |
| Mutability | p. 238 |
| Design Decisions, Representation Independence, and Debugging | p. 242 |
| What Is main? | p. 254 |
| One-Dimensional Arrays | |
| Array Basics | p. 263 |
| Simple Array-Processing Loops | p. 269 |
| Simple Computations on Numerical Data | p. 271 |
| Arrays of Objects | p. 277 |
| Debugging Arrays | p. 283 |
| Sorting and Searching | p. 296 |
| One-Dimensional Arrays and Graphics | p. 303 |
| Nested Loops and Two-Dimensional Arrays | |
| Nested Loops | p. 313 |
| Two-Dimensional Arrays | p. 321 |
| Example: Crossword Puzzles | p. 329 |
| Mouse in a Maze Revisited | p. 336 |
| Drawing Pictures (advanced) | p. 345 |
| Classes and Methods IV: Static Methods and Variables | |
| Class Variables and Class Methods | p. 365 |
| Classes with No Instance Variables or Methods | p. 369 |
| Modular Development and Debugging | p. 375 |
| Interfaces | p. 388 |
| The Java AWT Part I: Mouse Events (Optional) | |
| Mouse Events | p. 399 |
| Objects in GUI Programs | p. 405 |
| Debugging Classes | p. 410 |
| Inheritance and Exceptions | |
| Packages | p. 423 |
| Inheritance | p. 426 |
| Exceptions | p. 449 |
| Java AWT Part II (Optional) | |
| The Java AWT | p. 473 |
| The Java AWT Event Model | p. 482 |
| A Temperature Conversion GUI | p. 485 |
| Using Conditionals with Reactive Components | p. 491 |
| Drawing in a Frame | p. 499 |
| The AWT Component Hierarchy | p. 503 |
| The Canvas Class | p. 505 |
| Designing the Screen Layout | p. 509 |
| A Calendar Program | p. 516 |
| Java and the Web | p. 522 |
| Recursion | |
| Introduction to Recursion | p. 537 |
| A First Example | p. 539 |
| Divide and Conquer | p. 541 |
| Under the Hood | p. 543 |
| Processing Arrays Recursively | p. 546 |
| Recursive Functions on Lists | p. 564 |
| Dynamic Programming | p. 580 |
| Recursive Drawings | p. 583 |
| Text Processing and File Input/Output | |
| The Classes String and StringBuffer | p. 607 |
| Sequential Files | p. 609 |
| Debugging File I/O | p. 615 |
| A Mail-Merge Application | p. 619 |
| A Database Application | p. 623 |
| Reading Input from the Web (Optional) | p. 631 |
| Case Study: the Game of Reversi | |
| The Game of Reversi | p. 641 |
| Organization of the Solution | p. 644 |
| The Classes | p. 646 |
| The Reversi Classes | p. 648 |
| Other Java Features | |
| Comments | p. 670 |
| No Preprocessor | p. 671 |
| Data Types | p. 671 |
| Control Structures | p. 674 |
| The final Modifier | p. 675 |
| Inner Classes | p. 675 |
| Concurrency-Related Features | p. 676 |
| The transient and native Modifiers | p. 677 |
| Precedence Rules | |
| Classes in CSLib and the Java API | |
| Classes in the CSLib package | p. 681 |
| Classes in the java.lang Package | p. 684 |
| Classes in the java.util Package | p. 687 |
| Classes in the java.awt Package | p. 688 |
| Classes in the java.awt.event Package | p. 695 |
| Classes in the java.applet Package | p. 698 |
| Classes in the java.io Package | p. 698 |
| UML Class Diagrams | |
| Specifying a Class | p. 700 |
| Associations | p. 703 |
| Inheritance and Generalization | p. 704 |
| Aggregations | p. 704 |
| Interfaces and Realization | p. 705 |
| Javadoc and CSLib | |
| Javadoc | p. 706 |
| The CSLib Package | p. 708 |
| Index | p. 735 |
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