2. Day 2: The Java Programming Language

• 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.1.1 Chapter objectives
  • 2.1.2 Java design goals
  • 2.1.3 What is Java?
  • 2.1.4 How/where to get Java
  
  
• 2.2 First Steps with Java
  • 2.2.1 Java Commands and Utilities
  • 2.2.2 A first application
  • 2.2.3 main
  
  
• 2.3 Variables, constants, and keywords
  • 2.3.1 Primitive data types
  • 2.3.2 Literals
    • 2.3.2.1 boolean literals
    • 2.3.2.2 char literals
    • 2.3.2.3 Floating-point literals
    • 2.3.2.4 String literals
  • 2.3.3 Constants
  • 2.3.4 Reserved keywords
  
  
• 2.4 Arrays
• 2.5 Strings
  • 2.5.1 String objects
  • 2.5.2 StringBuffer class
    • 2.5.2.1 Exercise
    • 2.5.2.2 Exercise
  
  
• 2.6 Comments and Javadoc
  • 2.6.1 Types of comments
  • 2.6.2 Javadoc comment tags
    • 2.6.2.1 @see
    • 2.6.2.2 @param
    • 2.6.2.3 @return
    • 2.6.2.4 @exception
    • 2.6.2.5 @deprecated
    • 2.6.2.6 @author
    • 2.6.2.7 @version
    • 2.6.2.8 @since
  • 2.6.3 A comment example
  • 2.6.4 Notes on Usage
  
  
• 2.7 Flow control and loops
  • 2.7.1 Introduction
  • 2.7.2 Objectives
  • 2.7.3 Statements and blocks
    • 2.7.3.1 Expressions that can be made into statements
    • 2.7.3.2 Declaration statements
  • 2.7.4 if-else
  • 2.7.5 switch
  • 2.7.6 while and do-while
  • 2.7.7 for
  • 2.7.8 Labels
  • 2.7.9 break
  • 2.7.10 continue
  • 2.7.11 return
  • 2.7.12 No goto Statement
  
  
• 2.8 Classes and objects
  • 2.8.1 Introduction
  • 2.8.2 Objectives
  • 2.8.3 A Simple Class
  • 2.8.4 Fields
  • 2.8.5 Access Control and Inheritance
  • 2.8.6 Creating Objects
  • 2.8.7 Constructors
    • 2.8.7.1 Constructor example
  • 2.8.8 Methods
    • 2.8.8.1 Parameter values
    • 2.8.8.2 Using methods to control access
  • 2.8.9 this
  • 2.8.10 Overloading methods
  • 2.8.11 Overriding methods
  • 2.8.12 Static members
  • 2.8.13 Initialization Blocks
  • 2.8.14 Garbage collection and finalize
    • 2.8.14.1 finalize
  • 2.8.15 The toString() Method
  • 2.8.16 Native Methods
  
  
• 2.9 Methods and parameters
  • 2.9.1 Methods
    • 2.9.1.1 Invoking a Method
    • 2.9.1.2 The this Reference
  
  
• 2.10 Extending Classes
  • 2.10.1 Introduction
  • 2.10.2 Objectives
  • 2.10.3 An extended class
  • 2.10.4 A simple example
  • 2.10.5 What protected really means
  • 2.10.6 Constructors in extended classes
    • 2.10.6.1 Constructor order dependencies
    • 2.10.6.2 Constructor phases
    • 2.10.6.3 Constructor phase example
  • 2.10.7 Overriding methods, hiding fields, and nested classes
    • 2.10.7.1 Overriding
    • 2.10.7.2 The super keyword
  • 2.10.8 Marking methods and classes final
  • 2.10.9 The object class
    • 2.10.9.1 Object's utility methods
  • 2.10.10 Anonymous classes
  • 2.10.11 Abstract Classes and methods
  • 2.10.12 Cloning objects
    • 2.10.12.1 Three major considerations in writing a clone method
    • 2.10.12.2 Four different attitudes a class can have towards clone
  • 2.10.13 Extending classes: how and when
  • 2.10.14 Designing a class to be extended
    • 2.10.14.1 Bad effects of public fields
    • 2.10.14.2 Non-final classes have two interfaces
  
  
• 2.11 Interfaces
  • 2.11.1 Introduction
  • 2.11.2 Objectives
  • 2.11.3 An example interface
    • 2.11.3.1 Nested classes and interfaces
  • 2.11.4 Single inheritance versus multiple inheritance
  • 2.11.5 Extending Interfaces
    • 2.11.5.1 Name Conflicts
  • 2.11.6 Implementing Interfaces
  • 2.11.7 Using an Implementation
  • 2.11.8 Marker Interfaces
  • 2.11.9 When to Use Interfaces
    • 2.11.9.1 Two Important Differences Between Interfaces and Abstract Classes
    • 2.11.9.2 Interface or Abstract Class
  
  
• 2.12 Exceptions
  • 2.12.1 Introduction
  • 2.12.2 Objectives
  • 2.12.3 Creating exception types
  • 2.12.4 throw
  • 2.12.5 The throws clause
    • 2.12.5.1 Choices when invoking a method that has a throws clause
  • 2.12.6 try, catch, and finally
    • 2.12.6.1 finally
  • 2.12.7 When to use exceptions
  
  
• 2.13 Packages
  • 2.13.1 Introduction
  • 2.13.2 Package Naming
  • 2.13.3 Package Access
  • 2.13.4 Package Contents
  • 2.13.5 Examples

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