Sams Teach Yourself Java 2 in 24 Hours

By Rogers Cadenhead

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Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that teaches someone with no previous programming experience how to create simple Java programs and applets.

It starts out at a lower level than Sams Teach Yourself Java ...

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
• 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