Contents

• Chapter 0  Preface
• Chapter 1  The way of the program
  • 1.1  What is a programming language?
  • 1.2  What is a program?
  • 1.3  What is debugging?
  • 1.4  Formal and natural languages
  • 1.5  The first program
  • 1.6  Glossary
  • 1.7  Exercises
• Chapter 2  Variables and types
  • 2.1  More printing
  • 2.2  Variables
  • 2.3  Assignment
  • 2.4  Printing variables
  • 2.5  Keywords
  • 2.6  Operators
  • 2.7  Order of operations
  • 2.8  Operators for Strings
  • 2.9  Composition
  • 2.10  Glossary
  • 2.11  Exercises
• Chapter 3  Void methods
  • 3.1  Floating-point
  • 3.2  Converting from double to int
  • 3.3  Math methods
  • 3.4  Composition
  • 3.5  Adding new methods
  • 3.6  Classes and methods
  • 3.7  Programs with multiple methods
  • 3.8  Parameters and arguments
  • 3.9  Stack diagrams
  • 3.10  Methods with multiple parameters
  • 3.11  Methods that return values
  • 3.12  Glossary
  • 3.13  Exercises
• Chapter 4  Conditionals and recursion
  • 4.1  The modulus operator
  • 4.2  Conditional execution
  • 4.3  Alternative execution
  • 4.4  Chained conditionals
  • 4.5  Nested conditionals
  • 4.6  The return statement
  • 4.7  Type conversion
  • 4.8  Recursion
  • 4.9  Stack diagrams for recursive methods
  • 4.10  Glossary
  • 4.11  Exercises
• Chapter 5  GridWorld: Part 1
  • 5.1  Getting started
  • 5.2  BugRunner
  • 5.3  Exercises
• Chapter 6  Value methods
  • 6.1  Return values
  • 6.2  Program development
  • 6.3  Composition
  • 6.4  Overloading
  • 6.5  Boolean expressions
  • 6.6  Logical operators
  • 6.7  Boolean methods
  • 6.8  More recursion
  • 6.9  Leap of faith
  • 6.10  One more example
  • 6.11  Glossary
  • 6.12  Exercises
• Chapter 7  Iteration and loops
  • 7.1  Multiple assignment
  • 7.2  The while statement
  • 7.3  Tables
  • 7.4  Two-dimensional tables
  • 7.5  Encapsulation and generalization
  • 7.6  Methods and encapsulation
  • 7.7  Local variables
  • 7.8  More generalization
  • 7.9  Glossary
  • 7.10  Exercises
• Chapter 8  Strings and things
  • 8.1  Characters
  • 8.2  Length
  • 8.3  Traversal
  • 8.4  Run-time errors
  • 8.5  Reading documentation
  • 8.6  The indexOf method
  • 8.7  Looping and counting
  • 8.8  Increment and decrement operators
  • 8.9  Strings are immutable
  • 8.10  Strings are incomparable
  • 8.11  Glossary
  • 8.12  Exercises
• Chapter 9  Mutable objects
  • 9.1  Packages
  • 9.2  Point objects
  • 9.3  Instance variables
  • 9.4  Objects as parameters
  • 9.5  Rectangles
  • 9.6  Objects as return types
  • 9.7  Objects are mutable
  • 9.8  Aliasing
  • 9.9  null
  • 9.10  Garbage collection
  • 9.11  Objects and primitives
  • 9.12  Glossary
  • 9.13  Exercises
• Chapter 10  GridWorld: Part 2
  • 10.1  Termites
  • 10.2  Langton’s Termite
  • 10.3  Exercises
• Chapter 11  Create your own objects
  • 11.1  Class definitions and object types
  • 11.2  Time
  • 11.3  Constructors
  • 11.4  More constructors
  • 11.5  Creating a new object
  • 11.6  Printing objects
  • 11.7  Operations on objects
  • 11.8  Pure functions
  • 11.9  Modifiers
  • 11.10  Fill-in methods
  • 11.11  Incremental development and planning
  • 11.12  Generalization
  • 11.13  Algorithms
  • 11.14  Glossary
  • 11.15  Exercises
• Chapter 12  Arrays
  • 12.1  Accessing elements
  • 12.2  Copying arrays
  • 12.3  Arrays and objects
  • 12.4  for loops
  • 12.5  Array length
  • 12.6  Random numbers
  • 12.7  Array of random numbers
  • 12.8  Counting
  • 12.9  The histogram
  • 12.10  A single-pass solution
  • 12.11  Glossary
  • 12.12  Exercises
• Chapter 13  Arrays of Objects
  • 13.1  The Road Ahead
  • 13.2  Card objects
  • 13.3  The printCard method
  • 13.4  The sameCard method
  • 13.5  The compareCard method
  • 13.6  Arrays of cards
  • 13.7  The printDeck method
  • 13.8  Searching
  • 13.9  Decks and subdecks
  • 13.10  Glossary
  • 13.11  Exercises
• Chapter 14  Objects of Arrays
  • 14.1  The Deck class
  • 14.2  Shuffling
  • 14.3  Sorting
  • 14.4  Subdecks
  • 14.5  Shuffling and dealing
  • 14.6  Mergesort
  • 14.7  Class variables
  • 14.8  Glossary
  • 14.9  Exercises
• Chapter 15  Object-oriented programming
  • 15.1  Programming languages and styles
  • 15.2  Object methods and class methods
  • 15.3  The toString method
  • 15.4  The equals method
  • 15.5  Oddities and errors
  • 15.6  Inheritance
  • 15.7  The class hierarchy
  • 15.8  Object-oriented design
  • 15.9  Glossary
  • 15.10  Exercises
• Chapter 16  GridWorld: Part 3
  • 16.1  ArrayList
  • 16.2  Interfaces
  • 16.3  public and private
  • 16.4  Game of Life
  • 16.5  LifeRunner
  • 16.6  LifeRock
  • 16.7  Simultaneous updates
  • 16.8  Initial conditions
  • 16.9  Exercises
• Appendix A  Graphics
  • A.1  Java 2D Graphics
  • A.2  Graphics methods
  • A.3  Coordinates
  • A.4  Color
  • A.5  Mickey Mouse
  • A.6  Glossary
  • A.7  Exercises
• Appendix B  Input and Output in Java
  • B.1  System objects
  • B.2  Keyboard input
  • B.3  File input
  • B.4  Catching exceptions
• Appendix C  Program development
  • C.1  Strategies
  • C.2  Failure modes
• Appendix D  Debugging
  • D.1  Syntax errors
  • D.2  Run-time errors
  • D.3  Logic errors

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