Simply Java Programming: An Application-Driven Tutorial Approach

Simply Java Programming demonstrates the power of object-oriented, event-driven programming in Java. Its outstanding pedagogic approach comes from Deitel & Associates—the best-selling programming language authors and renowned instructors w o have taught programming to over 1,000,000 people in 100+ countries.

APPLICATION-DRIVEN, Step-by-Step Tutorial Approach—The Deitels explore Java concepts in the context of interesting, real-world applications such as: Web-Based Bookstore " ATM " Phone Directory " Car Payments " Billing " Flag Quiz " Fundraiser " Graphics Painter " Inventory " Investment Interest " Wage Calculator " Microwave Oven " Screen Scraper " Security Panel " Shipping Hub " Ticket Ordering " Typing Skills Developer " Drawing Shapes

Key Topics—Java Class Library " GUI Components (JButtons, JTextFields, Aists, JTimers, JTextAreas, JSpinners, JComboBoxes, JCheckBoxes, JRadioButtons, JMenus and others) " Event Handling " Debugging " Algorithms " Pseudocode " UML' " Control Statements " Methods " Random Number Generation " Arrays " Cosses " Objects" Inheritance " Polymorphism " Interfaces " Collections " Mouse and Keyboard Events " Strings " Sequential-Access Files " Database " Graphics " Multimedia " GUI Design " 3-Tier Web Application Development " Exception Handling " Iterators " Arraylists " Swing " JSP " HTML " GUI Programming

Extensive Pedagogic Features

• Step-by-step tutorials show how to build and execute complete applications, using a template, from start to finish
• DEITEL^® signature LIVE-CODE approach—presents programming concepts using complete working applications
• APPLICATION-DRIVEN design includes 32 tutorials and 145 real-world applications
• Self-review multiple-choice questions and answers for immediate feedback after each section
• Full-color presentation—syntax coloring, code highlighting, callouts and extensive comments
• Skills summaries, UML^™ activity diagrams
• Debugging sections and exercises that teach using the Java command-line debugger (JDB)
• Tips for improving reliability, performance and usability
• Ten multiple-choice questions per tutorial plus, "What does this code do?" and "What's wrong with this code?" exercises, and four real-world application exercises including a "Programming Challenge"
• GUI Design Guidelines and a Java Library Reference are highlighted in each tutorial for easy reference
• Key Terms sections in every tutorial and a comprehensive glossary at the end of the book
• Instructor's resources, including PowerPoint^® slides, test-item file, Instructor Resource CD and support Web sites with up-to-date information on the book ( www.deitel.com and www.prenhall.com/deitel )

Combining the Deitel™ signature Live-Code™ Approach with a new Application-Driven™ methodology, this book uses a step-by-step tutorial approach to begin teaching the basics of programming, builds upon previously learned concepts, and introduces new programming features in each successive tutorial. KEY TOPICS This comprehensive introduction to Java covers GUI design, swing components, methods, classes, data types, control statements, arrays, object-oriented programming, strings and characters, sequential files and more. It also includes higher-end topics such as database programming, multimedia and graphics, and Web applications development.

For individuals beginning their mastery of Java Programming.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 42 years experience in the computing field, including extensive industry and academic experience. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He worked on the pioneering virtual-memory operating-systems projects at IBM and MIT that developed techniques now widely implemented in systems such as UNIX, Linux and Windows XP He has 20 years of college teaching experience and served as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He is the author or co-author of several dozen books and multimedia packages. With translations published in numerous foreign languages, Dr. Deitel's texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered professional seminars to major corporations, government organizations and various branches of the military.

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he studied information technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered professional seminars to numerous industry and government clients and has lectured on C++ and Java for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling Computer Science textbook authors.

Jeff A. Listfield is a Computer Science graduate of Harvard University. His coursework included classes in computer graphics, networks and computational theory and he has programming experience in several languages. Jeff has co-authored C# How to Program, C# A Programmer's Introduction and C# for Experienced Programmers, and contributed to Perl How to Program and Java How to Program, 5/e.

Cheryl H. Yaeger, Director of Microsoft Software Publications with Deitel & Associates, Inc., graduated from Boston University in three years with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Cheryl has co-authored various Deitel & Associates, Inc. publications, including C# How to Program, C#: A Programmer's Introduction, C# for Experienced Programmers and Visual Basic.NET for Experienced Programmers. Cheryl has also contributed to other Deitel & Associates publications including Perl How to Program, Wireless Internet and Mobile Business How to Program, Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e, Visual Basic.NET How to Program, 2/e and Simply Visual Basic.NET.

Su Zhang holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from McGill University. Her graduate research included modeling and simulation, real-time systems and Java technology. She worked on Java and Web-technologies-related projects prior to joining Deitel. She has contributed to several Deitel Publications including Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program, Python How to Program, Java How to Program, 5/e and she co-authored Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers.