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This volume covers all the fundamentals of Java programming, introducing the core concepts of object-oriented coding at an early stage to ensure readers a swift and secure grasp of the processes, accompanied by contour diagrams and exemplar programs.

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This book presents a focused and accessible primer on the fundamentals of Java programming, with extensive use of examples and hands-on exercises. Topics and features: provides an introduction to variables, input/output and arithmetic operations; describes objects and contour diagrams, explains selection structures, and demonstrates how iteration structures work; discusses object-oriented concepts such as overloading and classes methods, and introduces string variables and processing; illustrates arrays and array processing and examines recursion; explores inheritance and polymorphism and investigates elementary files; presents a primer on graphical input/output, discusses elementary exception processing, and presents the basics of Javadoc; includes exercises at the end of each chapter, with selected answers in an appendix and a glossary of key terms; provides additional supplementary information at an associated website.

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Variables, Input/Output and Arithmetic
Objects: An Introduction
Selection Structures
Iteration Structures
Objects: Revisited
Strings
Arrays
Recursion
Objects: Inheritance and Polymorphism
Elementary File Input and Output
Simple Graphical Input and Output
Exceptions
Java doc Comments
Glossary
Answers to Selected Exercises

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From the book reviews:
"This book ... really hits the mark for a basic introduction to Java programming. ... This reviewer was very impressed with the organization of the topics and the incremental way that the presented concepts build upon each other. This is a very good resource for beginning Java programmers, and those who know any other programming language will find it a breeze to read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, two-year technical program students, professionals/practitioners, and general readers." (F. H. Wild III, Choice, Vol. 52 (3), November, 2014)

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Dr. James T. Streib is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL, USA. He is also the author of the successful Springer Guide to Assembly Language. Dr. Takako Soma is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the same institution.

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