本书以J2SE 5.0版本为基础,采用“基本原理优先”策略,循序渐进地介绍了关键概念,并通过大量实例向读者展示了面向对象程序设计的思想。另外,本书还全面且深入地覆盖了一些**主题,包括GUI应用程序、异常处理applet、I/O等。
本书的主要特点
●本书是核心版 (Core Version),英文原书还有定制版 (Custom Version) 和完全版 (Comprehensive Version) 。
●在每个实例中都包括问题解决方案的详细步骤。
●在作者的网站http://www.prenhall.com/liang/)中还提供了1000多个自测练习题。
●包括面向对象程序设计的深入论述。
●覆盖了Level I Java认证考试所需的大部分主题。
●包括GUI程序设计的扩展实例。
●覆盖了部分**Java主题。
新特性
●为方便初学者,适当地介绍了J2SE 5.0的特性。包括:
◆java.util.Scanner类。
◆格式化输出。
◆循环的增强。
◆基本的封装和非封装。
●更好地介绍了基本数据类型、表达、

Part I. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROGRAMMING
Chapter 1. Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Java
1.1 Introduce
1.2 What Is a Computer?
1.3 Programs
1.4 Operating Systems
1.5 Number Systems
1.6 Java,World Wide Web,and Beyond
1.7 Characteristics of Java
1.8 The Java Language Specification,API,JDK,and IDE
1.9 A Simple Java Program
1.10 Creating,Compiling ,and Executing a Java Program
1.11 Anatomy of the Java Program
1.12 Displaying Text in a Message Dialog Box
Chapter 2. Primitive Data Types and Operations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Writing Simple Programs
2.3 Identifiers
2.4 Variables
2.5 Assignmenst Statements and Assignment Expressions
2.6 Constants
2.7 Numeric Data Types and Operations
2.8 Numeric Type Conversions
2.9 Character Data Type and Operations
2.10 BOOLEAN dATA Type and Operations
2.11 Operator precedence and Associativity
2.12 Operand Evaluation Order
2.13 The String Type
2.14 Getting Input from Input Dialogs
2.15 Case Studies
2.16 Getting Input From the Console
2.17 Formating Output
2.18 Programming Style and Documentation
2.19 Programming Errors
2.20 Debugging
Chapter 3. Control Statements
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Selection Statements
3.3 Loop Stratements
3.4 Which Loop to Use?
3.5 Using the Keywords break and continue
3.6 Case Studies
Chapter 4. Methods
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Creating a Method
4.3 Calling a Method
4.4 Passing Parameters by Values
4.5 Overloading Methods
4.6 The Scope of Local Variables
4.7 Method Abstraction
4.8 The Math Class
4.9 Case study:generating random characters
4.10 stepwise refinement
4.11 recursion
4.12 packages
Chapter 5. Arrays
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Array Basics
5.3 Copying Arrays
5.4 Passing arrays to methods
5.5 returning an array from a method
5.6 sorting arrays
5.7 searching arrays
5.8 multidimensional arrays
Part II. OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Chapter 6. Objects and Classes
Chapter 7. Strings
Chapter 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism
Chapter 9. Abstract Classes and Interfaces
Chapter 10. Object-Oriented Modeling
Part III. GUI PROGRAMMING
Chapter 11. Getting Started with GUI Programming
Chapter 12. Event-Driven Programming
Chapter 13. Creating User Interfaces
Chapter 14. Applets, Images, and Audio
Part IV. EXCEPTION HANDLING AND IO
Chapter 15. Exceptions and Assertions
Chapter 16. Simple Input and Output
APPENDIXES