Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (March 8, 2018) © 2019

  • Tony Gaddis Haywood Community College
  • Godfrey Muganda North Central College
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For courses in computer programming in Java.

Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Data Structures provides a step-by-step introduction to programming in Java. This text is designed to be used in a 2 or 3 semester sequence and covers everything from the fundamentals of Java programming to algorithms and data structures. As with all Gaddis texts, every chapter contains clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises. With the 4th Edition, JavaFX has replaced Swing as the standard GUI library for Java in chapters that focus on GUI development.

  • 1. Introduction to Computers and Java
  • 2. Java Fundamentals
  • 3. Decision Structures
  • 4. Loops and Files
  • 5. Methods
  • 6. A First Look at Classes
  • 7. Arrays and the ArrayList Class
  • 8. A Second Look at Classes and Objects
  • 9. Text Processing and More about Wrapper Classes
  • 10. Inheritance
  • 11. Exceptions and Advanced File I/O
  • 12. JavaFX: GUI Programming and Basic Controls
  • 13. JavaFX: Advanced Controls
  • 14. JavaFX: Graphics, Effects, and Media
  • 15. Recursion
  • 16. Sorting, Searching, and Algorithm Analysis
  • 17. Generics
  • 18. Collections and the Stream API
  • 19. Linked Lists
  • 20. Stacks and Queues
  • 21. Binary Trees, AVL Trees, and Priority Queues

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