Old Table of Contents

• Introduction to Programs and Programming
• Getting Started
• How to Write, Compile and Run an Application
• Statements
• Compound Statements
• The Semicolon
• Comments
• Keywords
• Keywords are not Commands
• 'true', 'false', and 'null' are not Keywords
• Keywords are not Identifiers
• The Shortest Java Program Ever
• The Keyword 'class'
• The 'main' Method

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• Explicit and Implicit Code
• Implicit Code
• Explicit Code
• Syntax Decoration
• Syntactic Salt
• Syntactic Sugar

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• Values, Operators, Expressions, Types and Variables
• Values
• Operators
• Expressions
• Types
• Variables
• More about Types
• Strongly Typed
• Primitive Types

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• Type Wrappers
• How Large is a 'byte'?
• References
• Accuracy
• Unicode
• Constants
• Operator Precedence
• Conversions
• Widening Primitive Conversion
• Narrowing Primitive Conversions

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• Control Structures
• Sequence
• Conditional
• Iteration
• Jump Statements
• The 'break' Statement
• The 'continue' Statement
• The 'return' Statement
• Branching Statements
• The 'if' Statement
• The 'else' Statement
• The 'switch' Statement
• The 'break', 'continue' and 'return' statements are not Branching Statements

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• Recursion
• Escape Sequence

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• Classes
• Class Body
• Parameters and Arguments
• The 'equals' Method
• Objects
• Not Everything is an Object
• Static Import
• static Fields
• Access Control
• Static Factory Methods

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• The java.lang Package
• The String Class
• indexOf()
• endsWith()
• compareTo()
• The Object Class
• 'toString'
• The Math Class
• The random Method
• Monte Carlo Calculation of Pi

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• Bugs
• The "Parallelism Bug"
• The "Intentionality Bug"
• The "Egocentrism Bug"

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• Memoization
• Binary Numbers

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• Language Extensions
• J2SE 1.4.0 (Merlin)
• Assertion Facility
• J2SE 5.0 (1.5.0) (Tiger)
• Generics
• Enhanced 'for' Loop
• Autoboxing/Unboxing
• Typesafe Enums
• Varargs
• Static Import
• Metadata (Annotations)
• J2SE 6.0 (1.6.0) (Mustang)
• J2SE 7.0 (1.7.0) (Dolphin)
• Swing Applications
• The Main Parts of a Swing Application
• Writing the createContentPane Method
• Writing the createStatusBar Method
• Writing the createMenuBar Method
• Writing the createToolBar Method

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• HOWTOs
• Downloading and Installing Java
• Installing Java for Linux HOWTO
• Installing Java 1.4.0 for Microsoft Windows Me HOWTO
• How to Write, Compile and Run Java Programs
• How to Write, Compile and Run an Application
• How to Write, Compile and Run an Applet
• How to Write, Compile and Run a Swing Application
• How to Write, Compile and Run a Swing Applet
• How to Write, Compile and Run a GCJ Application
• Types
• How to Read an Unsigned 'byte'
• Performance
• How to Measure Execution Time
• How to Copy Arrays Fast
• Swing
• How to Add Button Color
• How to Find the Width and Height of an Application
• How to Use java.io.StreamTokenizer
• How to Copy Arrays Fast
• Source Code
• Applications
• The HelloWorld Application
• 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
• Binomial Coefficient
• How to Read a String from the Keyboard
• Temperature Conversion
• Computing Pi using BigDecimal
• Swing
• Installed Look and Feels
• Design Patterns
• The Singleton Design Pattern
• History
• Machine Language
• Assembly Language
• FORTRAN
• ALGOL 60
• SIMULA 67
• CPL
• BCPL
• B
• C
• C++
• Java
• Grammars
• The BCPL Grammar
• The Java Language Specification, First Edition
• The Java Language Specification, Second Edition
• The Java Language Specification, Third Edition
• References
• Java Tutorials on the Web
• Lykkenborg BSD License for Java Source Code
• Tutorial Standards and Conventions
• Conventions Used in the tutorial
• Document Standard

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