All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. No patent liability is assumed with res

Teach Yourself

Java in 21 Days

Professional Reference Edition

by Laura Lemay, Charles L. Perkins and Michael Morrison

C O N T E N T S

Introduction

Day 1 An Introduction to Java Programming

Day 2 Object-Oriented Programming and Java

Day 3 Java Basics

Day 4 Working with Objects

Day 5 Arrays, Conditionals, and Loops

Day 6 Creating Classes and Applications in Java

Day 7 More About Methods

Day 8 Java Applet Basics

Day 9 Graphics, Fonts, and Color

Day 10 Simple Animation and Threads

Day 11 More Animation, Images, and Sound

Day 12 Managing Simple Events and Interactivity

Day 13 Creating User Interfaces with the awt

Day 14 Windows, Networking, and Other Tidbits

Day 15 Modifiers, Access Control, and Class Design

Day 16 Packages and Interfaces

Day 17 Exceptions

Day 18 Multithreading

Day 19 Streams and I/O

Day 20 Using Native Methods and Libraries

Day 21 Under the Hood

Day 22 Java Programming Tools

Day 23 Working with Data Structures in Java

Day 24 Advanced Animation and Media

Day 25 Fun with Image Filters

Day 26 Client/Server Networking in Java

Day 27 The Standard Extension APIs

Day 28 Emerging Technologies

appendix A Language Summary

appendix B Class Hierarchy Diagrams

appendix C The Java Class Library

appendix D Bytecodes Reference

appendix E java.applet Package Reference

appendix F java.awt Package Reference

appendix G java.awt.image Package Reference

appendix H java.awt.peer Package Reference

appendix I java.io Package Reference

appendix J java.lang Package Reference

appendix K java.net Package Reference

appendix L java.util Package Reference

Credits