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
  • 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
    • Testing a Condition
    • if Statements
    • if-else Statements
    • switch Statements
    • The Conditional Operator
    • Workshop: Watching the Clock
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Activities
  • 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

Quiz

The following questions will see what condition you're in after studying conditional statements in Java.

Questions

1. Conditional tests result in either a true or false value. Which variable type does this remind you of?
   1. None. They're unique.
   2. The long variable type.
   3. The boolean type.
2. Which statement is used as a catch-all category in a switch block statement?
   1. default
   2. otherwise
   3. onTheOtherHand
3. What's a conditional?
   1. The thing that repairs messy split ends and tangles after you shampoo.
   2. Something in a program that tests whether a condition is true or false.
   3. The place where you confess your sins to a neighborhood religious figure.

Answers

1. c. The boolean variable type can only equal true or false, making it similar to conditional tests.
2. a. default statements will be handled if none of the other case statements matches the switch variable.
3. b. The other answers describe conditioner and a confessional.

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