Java Foundations

John Lewis is the co-author of the best-selling introductory Java programming book Java Software Solutions, as well as Java Software Structures, Programming with Alice and Java, and books for AP computer science. He teaches courses at both Virginia Tech and Radford University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech.

Peter DePasquale is an assistant professor of computer science at the College of New Jersey (TCNJ). He is the author of Addison-Wesley's Java Backpack Reference Guide and Addison-Wesley's C++ Backpack Reference Guide, as well as Programming with Alice and Java .

Joe Chase is an associate professor of computer science at Radford University. He is the co-author of Java Software Structures and Java Software Structures for AP* Computer Science AB.

Data and Expressions
Using Classes and Objects
Conditionals and Loops
Writing Classes
Graphical User Interfaces
Arrays
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Exceptions
Analysis of Algorithms
Introduction to Collections-Stacks
Linked Structures-Stacks
Queues
Lists
Iterators
Recursion
Searching and Sorting
Trees
Binary Search Trees
Heaps and Priority Queues
Sets and Maps
Multi-way Search Trees
Graphs
Databases

Appendix A Glossary
Appendix B Number Systems
Appendix C The Unicode Character Set
Appendix D Java Operators
Appendix E Java Modifiers
Appendix F JavaFX Graphics
Appendix G JavaFX Scene Builder
Appendix H Regular Expressions
Appendix I Hashing
Appendix J Java Syntax