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[wkx] indicates a section covered in week #x
[opt] indicates an optional sectionChapter 1 [wk1]: Overview: The Mental Landscape
- Section 1 [wk1]: The Fetch-and-Execute Cycle: Machine Language
- Section 2 [wk1]: Asynchronous Events: Polling Loops and Interrupts
- Section 3 [wk1]: The Java Virtual Machine
- Section 4 [wk1]: Fundamental Building Blocks of Programs
- Section 5 [wk1]: Objects and Object-oriented Programming
- Section 6 [opt]: The Modern User Interface
- Section 7 [opt]: The Internet and World-Wide Web
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 2 [wk2]: Programming in the Small I: Names and Things
- Section 1 [wk2]: The Basic Java Application
- Section 2 [wk2]: Variables and the Primitive Types
- Section 3 [wk2]: Strings, Objects, and Subroutines
- Section 4 [wk2]: Text Input and Output
- Section 5 [wk2]: Details of Expressions
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 3 [wk3]: Programming in the Small II: Control
- Section 1 [wk3]: Blocks, Loops, and Branches
- Section 2 [wk3]: Algorithm Development
- Section 3 [wk4]: The while and do..while Statements
- Section 4 [wk4]: The for Statement
- Section 5 [wk3]: The if Statement
- Section 6 [wk3]: The switch Statement
- Section 7 [opt]: Introduction to Applets and Graphics
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 4 [wk5]: Programming in the Large I: Subroutines
- Section 1 [wk5-6]: Black Boxes
- Section 2 [wk5-6]: Static Subroutines and Static Variables
- Section 3 [wk5-6]: Parameters
- Section 4 [wk5-6]: Return Values
- Section 5 [opt]: Toolboxes, API's, and Packages
- Section 6 [opt]: More on Program Design
- Section 7 [opt]: The Truth about Declarations
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 5 [wk10]: Programming in the Large II: Objects and Classes
- Section 1 [wk10]: Objects, Instance Variables, and Instance Methods
- Section 2 [wk10]: Constructors and Object Initialization
- Section 3 [wk11]: Programming with Objects
- Section 4 [opt]: Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Abstract Classes
- Section 5 [wk11]: this and super
- Section 6: Interfaces, Nested Classes and Other Details
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 6 [opt]: Applets, HTML, and GUI's
- Section 1 [opt]: The Basic Java Applet and JApplet
- Section 2 [opt]: HTML Basics and the Web
- Section 3 [opt]: Graphics and Painting
- Section 4 [opt]: Mouse Events
- Section 5 [opt]: Keyboard Events
- Section 6 [opt]: Introduction to Layouts and Components
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 7 [opt]: Advanced GUI Programming
- Section 1 [opt]: More about Graphics
- Section 2 [opt]: More about Layouts and Components
- Section 3 [opt]: Basic Components and Their Events
- Section 4 [opt]: Programming with Components
- Section 5 [opt]: Menus and Menubars
- Section 6 [opt]: Timers, Animation, and Threads
- Section 7 [opt]: Frames and Applications
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 8 [wk8]: Arrays
- Section 1 [wk8]: Creating and Using Arrays
- Section 2 [wk8]: Programming with Arrays
- Section 3 [opt]: Dynamic Arrays, ArrayLists, and Vectors
- Section 4 [wk8]: Searching and Sorting
- Section 5 [wk9]: Multi-Dimensional Arrays
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 9 [all opt]: Correctness and Robustness
- Section 1: Introduction to Correctness and Robustness
- Section 2: Writing Correct Programs
- Section 3: Exceptions and the try...catch Statement
- Section 4: Programming with Exceptions
- Programming Exercises
- Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 10 [all opt]: Advanced Input/Output
- Section 1: Streams, Readers, and Writers
- Section 2: Files
- Section 3: Programming with Files
- Section 4: Networking
- Section 5: Programming Networked Applications
- Programming Exercises
- Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 11 [wk13]: Linked Data Structures and Recursion
- Section 1 [wk13]: Recursion
- Section 2 [wk14]: Linking Objects
- Section 3 [opt]: Stacks and Queues
- Section 4 [opt]: Binary Trees
- Section 5 [opt]: A Simple Recursive-descent Parser
- [opt] Programming Exercises
- [opt] Quiz on this Chapter
Chapter 12 [all opt]: Generic Programming and Collection Classes
- Section 1: Generic Programming
- Section 2: List and Set Classes
- Section 3: Map Classes
- Section 4: Programming with Collection Classes
- Programming Exercises
- Quiz on this Chapter
Appendix 1: Other Features of Java
Appendix 2: Some Notes on Java Programming Environments
Appendix 3: Source code for all examples in the text