Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Part I: Revving Up 7

Chapter 1: Getting Started 9

Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Computer 21

Chapter 3: Running Programs 47

Part II: Writing Your Own Java Programs 69

Chapter 4: Exploring the Parts of a Program 71

Chapter 5: Composing a Program 91

Chapter 6: Using the Building Blocks: Variables, Values, and Types 115

Chapter 7: Numbers and Types 129

Chapter 8: Numbers? Who Needs Numbers? 147

Part III: Controlling the Flow 169

Chapter 9: Forks in the Road 171

Chapter 10: Which Way Did He Go? 187

Chapter 11: How to Flick a Virtual Switch 209

Chapter 12: Around and Around It Goes 225

Chapter 13: Piles of Files: Dealing with Information Overload 245

Chapter 14: Creating Loops within Loops 265

Chapter 15: The Old Runaround 277

Part IV: Using Program Units 301

Chapter 16: Using Loops and Arrays 303

Chapter 17: Programming with Objects and Classes 321

Chapter 18: Using Methods and Variables from a Java Class 335

Chapter 19: Creating New Java Methods 357

Chapter 20: Oooey GUI Was a Worm 379

Part V: The Part of Tens 405

Chapter 21: Ten Sets of Web Links 407

Chapter 22: Ten Useful Classes in the Java API 413

Index 417

About the Author

Dr. Barry Burd has an M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois. As a teaching assistant in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, he was elected five times to the universitywide List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students.
Since 1980, Dr. Burd has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. When he's not lecturing at Drew University, Dr. Burd leads training courses for professional programmers in business and industry. He has lectured at conferences in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. He is the author of several articles and books, including Java For Dummies and Android Application Development All-in-One For Dummies, both published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.