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Beginning Programming with Java® For Dummies
Beginning Programming with Java® For Dummies
Curriculum
29 Sections
95 Lessons
10 Weeks
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Introduction
5
5.6
About This Book
5.7
Foolish Assumptions
5.8
Icons Used in This Book
5.9
Beyond the Book
5.10
Where to Go from Here
Part 1: Getting Started with Java Programming
0
Chapter 1: The Big Picture
3
12.13
What’s It All About?
12.14
From Your Mind to the Computer’s Processor
12.15
Your Java Programming Toolset
Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Computer
3
16.17
Let’s Get Started
16.18
If You Need More Details …
16.19
What’s Next?
Chapter 3: Running Programs
3
20.21
Running a Canned Java Program
20.22
Some Programs Don’t Come in Cans
20.23
What’s All That Stuff in the IntelliJ IDEA Window?
Part 2: Writing Your Own Java Programs
0
Chapter 4: Exploring the Parts of a Program
3
25.26
Checking Out Java Code for the First Time
25.27
The Elements in a Java Program
25.28
Understanding a Simple Java Program
Chapter 5: Composing a Program
4
29.30
Computers Are Stupid
29.31
Building an Echo Chamber
29.32
Make IntelliJ Do All the Work
29.33
Expecting the Unexpected
Chapter 6: Using the Building Blocks: Variables, Values, and Types
5
34.35
Various Variables and Ways in Which They Vary
34.36
What Do All Those Zeros and Ones Mean?
34.37
Reading Decimal Numbers from the Keyboard
34.38
Variations on a Theme
34.39
Experimenting with JShell
Chapter 7: Numbers and Types
3
40.41
Using Whole Numbers
40.42
Creating New Values by Applying Operators
40.43
Size Matters
Chapter 8: Numbers? Who Needs Numbers?
3
44.45
A Brief Character Study
44.46
The Moment of Truth (and Falsehood)
44.47
The Remaining Primitive Types
Part 3: Controlling the Flow
0
Chapter 9: Forks in the Road
3
49.50
Decisions, Decisions!
49.51
Making Decisions (Java if Statements)
49.52
Variations on the Theme
Chapter 10: Which Way Did He Go?
4
53.54
Forming Bigger and Better Conditions
53.55
Building a Nest
53.56
Enumerating the Possibilities
53.57
When One Line Isn’t Enough
Chapter 11: Around and Around It Goes
3
58.59
Repeating Instructions Again and Again and Again and Again
58.60
Where Does Each Statement Belong?
58.61
Priming the Pump
Chapter 12: Circling Back to Java Loops
2
62.63
Repeating Statements a Certain Number of Times (Java for Statements)
62.64
Repeating Until You Get What You Need (Java do Statements)
Part 4: The Inside ScOOP
0
Chapter 13: Programming with Objects and Classes
4
66.67
The Class Is Always Cleaner
66.68
From Classes Come Objects
66.69
Another Way to Think about Classes
66.70
What’s Next?
Chapter 14: Using Methods and Fields from a Java Class
4
71.72
Long Live the String!
71.73
Using an Object’s Methods
71.74
How to Achieve Static Equilibrium
71.75
The View from On High
Chapter 15: Creating New Java Methods
5
76.77
Defining a Method within a Class
76.78
Let the Objects Do the Work
76.79
Passing the Buck
76.80
Getting a Value from a Method
76.81
What Next?
Part 5: Smart Java Techniques
0
Chapter 16: Piles of Files: Dealing with Information Overload
3
83.84
Running a Disk-Oriented Program
83.85
Writing a Disk-Oriented Program
83.86
Writing, Rewriting, and Re-Rewriting
Chapter 17: How to Flick a Virtual Switch
4
87.88
Meet the switch Statement
87.89
A Switch in Time
87.90
Your Grandparents’ switch Statement
87.91
Using a Conditional Operator
Chapter 18: Creating Loops within Loops
3
92.93
Paying Your Old Code a Little Visit
92.94
Nested Development
92.95
Using Nested for Loops
Chapter 19: Out of Many, One
6
96.97
Some Loops in Action
96.98
Reader, Meet Arrays; Arrays, Meet the Reader
96.99
Working with Arrays
96.100
Looping in Style
96.101
When Good Arrays Go Bad
96.102
What to Do When Arrays Go Awry
Chapter 20: Oooey-GUI Was a Worm
2
103.104
Put Some Swing in Your Step
103.105
Drag-and-Drop for GUI Greatness
Part 6: The Part of Tens
0
Chapter 21: Ten Useful Classes in the Java API
10
107.108
ArrayList
107.109
File
107.110
Integer
107.111
JFrame
107.112
JOptionPane
107.113
Math
107.114
NumberFormat
107.115
Scanner
107.116
String
107.117
System
Chapter 22: Ten Bits of Advice for New Software Developers
10
118.119
How Long Does It Take to Learn Java?
118.120
Which of Barry’s Books Should I Read?
118.121
Are Books Other than Barry’s Good for Learning Java and Android Development?
118.122
Which Computer Programming Language(s) Should I Learn?
118.123
What Skills Other than Computer Coding Should I Learn?
118.124
How Should I Continue My Learning as a Software Developer?
118.125
How Else Should I Continue My Learning as a Developer?
118.126
How Can I Get a Job Developing Software?
118.127
I Still Don’t Know What to Do with My Life
118.128
If I Have Other Questions, How Can I Contact Barry Burd?
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