Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours

By Rogers Cadenhead

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Reader Services
  • Introduction
  • Hour 1. Becoming a Programmer
  • Hour 2. Writing Your First Program
  • Hour 3. Vacationing in Java
    • First Stop: Sun Microsystems
    • Going to School with Java
    • Lunch in JavaWorld
    • Taking in a Ballgame at ESPN.com
    • Getting Down to Business
    • Stopping by Gamelan to Ask Directions
    • Workshop: Putting Java on Your Desktop
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Activities
  • Hour 4. Understanding How Java Programs Work
  • Part II: Learning the Basics of Programming
  • Hour 5. Storing and Changing Information in a Program
  • Hour 6. Using Strings to Communicate
  • Hour 7. Using Conditional Tests to Make Decisions
  • Hour 8. Repeating an Action with Loops
  • Part III: Working with Information in New Ways
  • Hour 9. Storing Information with Arrays
  • Hour 10. Creating Your First Object
  • Hour 11. Describing What Your Object Is Like
  • Hour 12. Making the Most of Existing Objects
  • Part IV: Programming a Graphical User Interface
  • Hour 13. Building a Simple User Interface
  • Hour 14. Laying Out a User Interface
  • Hour 15. Responding to User Input
  • Hour 16. Building a Complex User Interface
  • Part V: Creating Multimedia Programs
  • Hour 17. Creating Interactive Web Programs
  • Hour 18. Handling Errors in a Program
  • Hour 19. Creating a Threaded Program
  • Hour 20. Reading and Writing Files
  • Part VI: Creating Multimedia Programs
  • Hour 21. Using Fonts and Color
  • Hour 22. Playing Sound Files
  • Hour 23. Working with Graphics
  • Hour 24. Creating Animation
  • Part VII: Appendixes
  • Appendix A. Tackling New Features of Java 2 Version 1.4
  • Appendix B. Using the Java 2 Software Development Kit
  • Appendix C. Programming with the Java 2 Software Development Kit
  • Appendix D. Using Sun ONE Studio
  • Appendix E. Where to Go from Here: Java Resources
  • Appendix F. This Book's Web Site

Workshop: Putting Java on Your Desktop

The last stop on your whirlwind tour of Java is the Yahoo! News Ticker, an applet developed for the online news service of the Yahoo! Web site. Put on your fedora and redirect your Web browser to http://www.cadenhead.org/javaticker.

The Yahoo! News Ticker is a Java program that provides constant headline updates. The News Ticker is viewed on your system's desktop as a stand-alone window, which you can keep open while your browser is minimized. Figure 3.7 shows the ticker on a Windows XP desktop.

Figure 3.7 News headlines and ads are presented in a desktop window with the Yahoo! News Java Ticker program.

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