Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ, Global Edition

About our authors David J. Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, and mainly teaches introductory, object-oriented Programming at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition to computing education and his rich, practical experience in a wide range of programming languages, his main research also includes the area of Software Engineering.  Michael Kölling is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sydney University and has worked in Australia, Denmark, and the UK. He is the lead developer of BlueJ and Greenfoot, two educational programming environments, and his research areas of interest include object-oriented systems, programming languages, software tools, and computing education. 

I: Foundations of Object Orientation  

1. Objects and classes  
2. Understanding class definitions  
3. Object interaction  
4. Grouping objects  
5. Functional processing of collections (Advanced)  
6. More-sophisticated behavior          
7. Fixed-size collections: arrays  
8. Designing classes  
9. Well-behaved objects 

II: Application Structures  

10. Improving structure with inheritance  
11. More about inheritance  
12. Further abstraction techniques  
13. Building graphical user interfaces  
14. Handling errors  
15. Designing applications  
16. A case study  

Appendices  

A. Working with a BlueJ project 
B. Java data types               
C. Operators                 
D. Java control structures  
E. Running Java without BlueJ  
F. Using the debugger 
G. Unit unit-testing tools  
H. Teamwork tools  
I. Javadoc  
J. Program style guide  
K. Important library classes