Table of Contents

Getting Started

Learning the Basics

Object-Oriented Programming

Collections, Lists and Java's Built-In APIs

Exceptions

Libraries, Packages, and Modules

Databases and JDBC

Sockets, Files, and Streams

Working with HTTP

Encryption

Processes

Regular Expressions

Functional Programming with Lambda Expressions

Recursion

Processing Data with Streams

Predicates and Other Functional Interfaces

Reactive Programming with Java Flow

Unit Testing

About the Author

David Cuartielles is a doctorate in interaction design and a postgraduate in telecommunications. He has a strong interest in building technology for humans, and that implies creating platforms and tools that help people to easily perform complex tasks. He is a co-founder of the Arduino platform and also lectures at the Malmo University. He teaches at different universities all over the world, and has spoken in the fields of technology, education, and free/open licensing models. As the CTO in education for Arduino, he advises governments about possible ways of creating new educational programs using state of the art technology (and not just Arduino). Andreas Göransson is a software consultant focusing on Android application and platform development. He has several years of experience from teaching software development in different languages at the university in Malmö. In the past few years, he has been helping small start-ups and major multinational corporations to deliver high-quality products to a wide array of platforms. He has co-authored two books on Android development and has also contributed to popular open source tools in his spare time. Eric Foster-Johnson is a veteran programmer who writes enterprise software in Java, Grails, and other JVM technologies. He is a consultant for ObjectPartners. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 books, including Red Hat RPM Guide, Teach Yourself Linux, and Perl Modules.