An Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Design Using Java

Introduction. Data Abstraction: Introductory Concepts. Basic Java Structural Components. Specification of a Simple Class. Implementing a Simple Class. Conditions. Programming by Contract. Testing a Class. Relations. Putting Together a Complete System. Software Quality. Lists and Iteration. Sorting and Searching. Abstraction and Inheritance. Modeling with Abstraction. Organizing Lists. Recursion. Failures and Exceptions. Building the User Interface. Designing the GUI Front-End: The Model-View-Controller Pattern. Computational Complexity. Implementing Lists: Array Implementations. Implementing Lists: Linked Implementations. Organizing List Implementations. Dispensers and Dictionaries. Appendix A: Stream i/o. Appendix B: Applets. Appendix C: Java Syntactic Summary. References. Index.